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Conclusion of the 69th edition of the Festival del film Locarno

Ralitza Petrova © Festival del film Locarno     The 2016 edition, the fourth under Carlo Chatrian's Artistic Direction, came to a successful end, crowned with the Pardo d’oro to Godless, directed by Bulgarian filmmaker Ralitza Petrova.   Concorso internazionale Pardo d’oro GODLESS by Ralitza Petrova, Bulgaria/Denmark/France Premio speciale della giuria (Special Jury Prize) INIMI CICATRIZATE (Scarred Hear...

 

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The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival April 19 – 22, 2017

The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival has been awarded several prestigious awards including one of the "Top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee" by Movie Maker Magazine. The MBIFF screens projects in a multi-million dollar theater, housing state of the art technology. 
Being billed as the East Coast's answer to Sundance, the MBIFF has a reputation for outstanding films including writings and blogs making the statement that the MBIFF has the best film line up in the World. We continue to be a venue for up and coming film makers as well as seasoned professionals. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance with their films, and will be available for Q&A sessions.

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HFM/CineMart combine for greater Boost

    Six international and five Dutch projects in development, as well as three works-in-progress, have been selected for the first BoostNL programme that kicks off at the Netherlands Film Festival’s Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht (22 - 25 September) and continues through to IFFR’s CineMart 2017 (29 January - 1 February). ...

 

Zero Days, Alex Gibney, 2016. USA

It is certainly rare that a documentary covers a topical problem that has such apocalyptical implications as Gibney’s data based exploration of the current state of cyberwarfare introducing major and minor countries to a new and silent way of waging war with potential catastrophic consequences.  One does not need to be a doomsayer to realize that current state sponsored sophisticated computer hacking determined by political objectives destabilizes global security. As distinct from i...

 

 

Film Review: Spa Night

By Maria Esteves – August 18, 2016 SPA NIGHT is a compelling film about the life of David (Joe Seo), a devoted young spiritual man of Asian American descent who struggles with his identity. Set in present day Los Angeles urban community, David who lives with his parents and works at the family's restaurant, discover the painful parts of humanity. The dramatic turning point are when he is faced with socio-economic challenges from a failing family business. Out of desperation, he jo...

 

Subhash Ghai, director-showman, launches Trailer of college movie, Days of Tafree

Subhash Ghai, director-showman, launches Trailer of college movie, Days of Tafree Tafree is an interesting title, being a shortened form of the word tafreeh, which means entertainment or fun in Urdu. The Hindi equivalent ismanoranjan. Ahmedabad-based writer-director Krishnadev Yagnik’s debut film Chhello Divas (Last Day, in Gujarati, a college romp) was a hit, and he has written and directed the college romp in Hindi, titled Tafree, with at least two lead actors carried over. Both...

World premiere in Cannes

An artistic journey between fiction and documentary film at the same time, throughout space, time, dimensions, light and music, that are conducting through the full sequence to a live experience of Enoc the Resplendent Stargate Energy®

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Revolution by Rob Stewart (Sharkwater) 

over 40 festival wins so far

Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.

Get Happy by Manoj Annadurai 

Feature - Feel Good Movie  - World premiered in Montreal World Film Festival Winner best romantic comedy in Manhattan Fest

Charlie Kane can’t catch a break. He grew into a man who expects the worse out of life and gets it. But that changes when, by chance, he meets a bright, sunny sprite of a woman named Holly who turns him from a dour drip into someone finally allowing himself to be happy.Then a bus flattens her before Charlie eyes. Charlie opts for suicide but can’t even successfully give up on life. Left with no other choice, he adopts Holly’s ethos of positivity and just decides to be happy... by ignoring all the bad things in life. But his cynical best friend isn’t buying Charlie’s new-found happiness and sets out to save Charlie by making him miserable again. 

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HALLOWEEN HORROR FEST  October 1 - 31, 2016

Deadline August 31

Celebrating world-class horror films and the filmmakers who terrify, disgust, and disturb us. 

Submission: June 1st - August 31st, 2016 (Submission Fee - $25)
Official selections will be announced September 13th, 2016
Official competition dates: October 1st - 23rd, 2016
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André Forcier’s KISS ME LIKE A LOVER opens the 40th Montreal World Film Festival

André Forcier’s Embrasses-moi comme tu m’aimes opens today the 40th edition of the Montreal World Film Festival.  The film’s world premiere in the MWFF’s World Competition will mark the fourth time a Forcier feature has competed in the festival, having won a variety of awards for Une histoire inventée (1990), A Wind From Wyoming (1994) and Coteau Rouge (2011). Scripted by Forcier and Linda Pinet, the film was produced by...

 

Dungog Festival - Short Film Competition

 

 

 

Morgan I love you? not sure, check the trailer

It could have been a wonderful child. #WhatIsMorgan See MORGAN in theaters September 2, 2016 ...

 

The European premiere of ''La fille de Brest / 150 Milligrams'' to open the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival

Emmanuelle Bercot directs this Golden Shell contender starring Sidse Babett Knudsen and Benoît Magimel   The European premiere of La fille de Brest / 150 Milligrams will open the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. The fifth feature by French director Emmanuelle Bercot, a contender for the Golden Shell, stars the Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen) and the French actor Benoît Magimel (La Haine). La fille de Brest / 150 Milligrams is based on novel &ldqu...

 

A City of Rust trailer

 

Galileo tries to convince the City of Rust inhabitants to stop Mr E and his reckless use of the mountain’s resources. Mountain which, he states, holds the energy that is the source of their life. When his recommendations are ignored and the “Rustonians” have to face the consequences of their indifference, they will turn to him for help…

 

Useful download: The EDCF Guide for Film Festivals in the Digital Age

The EDCF Guide for Film Festivals in the Digital Age – technical operations, theatrical solutions and recommended practices by Angelo D’Alessio   With contributions from members of the Festivals Working Group “A successful film festival is an orchestra of great content, strong delivery and pitch-perfect design. When one element is out of tune, it can ruin the entire performance of any festival”   Contents F...

 

OIFF TURIN CINEFEST

OIFF is at its 4th edition with some important news, the live screening reserved for the winners in the beautiful city of Turin. After the official selection all the finalists will compete in the contest for 12 days in January 2017 (January 20th-31st). Members of a competent jury are in charge to nominate the best short and the best feature. The winning films will be played in a theatre in Turin next winter and they will also get a prize of 500 dollars. The festival aims to be a showcase...

 

40 projects selected for the 2016 Venice Gap-Financing Market.

The Venice Production Bridge is pleased to present the line-up of the 40 projects selected for the 2016 Venice Gap-Financing Market.   The Venice Production Bridge will present 40 projects in the final stages of development and funding, divided as follows: 25 projects for feature-length fiction films and feature documentaries from around the world, 4 European projects for TV Series, 8 projects for films to be produced as Virtual Reality & Interactive experiences and 3 projects for Web...

 

Oldenburg announces a new platform for discoveries with its inaugural Co-Production event – the Matchbox Coproduction Lounge

 

The Matchbox Coproduction Lounge is a launch pad for developing projects by experienced filmmakers and emerging talents, organized by the Oldenburg International Film Festival team and taking place within the 5-day Festival. The one-day event aims at providing industry professionals a relaxed and personal environment in which to connect and create opportunities for future collaborations.   The inaugural line-up of international film projects selected includes “Potsdamer Platz”...

 

 

''Arrival'' to close Pearls at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival

The Velodrome will house the screening of the sci-fi thriller by Denis Villeneuve Share on Facebook   Share on Twitter Images in high resolution Arrival, latest m...

 

Revolution selected at FICMA

Revolution will compete at the 23 Edition  International Environmental Film Festival (FICMA BARCELONA) hold next 2016  November from the 3rd until the 10th. (More info: www.ficma.com) After 1800 films submissions it is an honor for our film REVOLUTION to be selected to take part in the Official Feature Documental Section competing for the GOLDEN SUN for the best Documental. The Festival wants to be a window for this kind of films and to be a kind of inspiration for a...

 

Great feedback from Our Sustainable World Film Festival in Denver

Hi Bruno, Our screening of Revolution was VERY WELL received. It inspired and motivated many to speak up about their intentions to become more vocal and active.  It was a great day and we are so happy that Revolution was part of our presentation to our community! We are already starting to prepare for next year.  Thank you for your kindness in communication. Kindest regards, jinna Jinna K. Russell, M.S., L.P.C. “To be yourself in a world that is c...

 

 

Revolution selected at Matsalu Nature Film Festival in Tallinn 21 - 25 sept 2016

  The 14th Matsalu Nature Film Festival will be held in Estonia  September 21-25, 2016!   This festival is an annual nature film event. It is named after the nearby Matsalu National Park, one of Europe's largest bird sanctuaries and a wetland environment of global significance. The festival showcases a variety of new international films about nature, wildlife, expeditions, environment, sustainability, biodiversity, conservation - films that depict nature in...

 

 

Operation Chromite, War Blockbuster hits N°1 Box Office in Korea

"Operation Chromite" Directed by  Lee Jae-Han. Viewed in Koreatown, Los Angeles, Starring Liam  Neeson as General Douglas MacArthur and Jung-Jae Lee as the leader of a nearly suicidal undercover mission behind North Korean lines at the peak of the Korean War.  Operation Chromite  --(original Korean title, 인천상륙작전; 仁川上陸作戰;Incheon Sangnyuk Jae-jeon) is a 2016 South Korean  war drama blockbuster directed by "John H."...

 

50 Feature Films Selected for European Film Awards 2016

    European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced the titles of the 50 films on this year’s EFA Feature Film Selection, the list of feature fiction films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2016! With 33 European countries represented, the list once again illustrates the great diversity in European cinema.  In the 20 countr...

 

CommunicAsia 2016: SpeedCast provides services for SES Asia Pacific satellites, acquires WINS

CommunicAsia 2016: SpeedCast provides services for SES Asia Pacific satellites, acquires WINS SpeedCast International Limited, a leading global satellite communications and network service provider, and SES, a leading global satellite operator, have signed a multi-year service agreement for Telemetry, Tracking and Command (‘TT&C’) and Carrier Spectrum Monitoring (‘CSM’) services for four of its satellites in the AsiaPac/IOR region. Under the service agreement, Spe...

 

Lion announced as this year’s American Express® Gala

  The film will receive its UK premiere on Wednesday 12 October at London’s Odeon Leicester Square, with Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman expected to attend.   The 60th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® is thrilled to announce that Lion starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman will be the American Express Gala at this year’s Fest...

 

Hollyshorts Closing Feature Outlaws and Angels from JT Mollner

    Outlaws and Angels Runtime: 1:58 "When outlaws on the lam invade the home of an unsuspecting, seemingly innocent, frontier family to hide out for the night, an unexpected game of cat and mouse ensues, leading to seduction, role revers...

 

The Palme d’Or in Cannes, ''I, Daniel Blake'', and the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, ''Fuocoammare / Fire at Sea'' in the Pearls

  The 64th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival will present the last works of Ade, Barras, Dudok de Wit, Frears, Hansen-Løve, Koreeda, Kusturica, Lafosse, Larraín, Loach, Ozon, Puiu, Rosi, Sachs and Verhoeven   The discriminations and inequalities of the contemporary world, the family and the different forms of love and hate can be found in the storyline of some of the year’s most important films, the “recommendations” of the best fests on th...

 

 

32 films make up the retrospective ''The Act of Killing. Cinema and global violence''

  The 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival and San Sebastian, European Capital of Culture 2016 present a season of films reflecting on some of contemporary society’s great conflicts   Joshua Oppenheimer, whose film "The Act of Killing" lends the season its name, will be present at the San Sebastian Festival. The Act of Killing. Cinema and global violence is the title of the thematic retrospecti...

 

EFA Selects 15 Documentaries

15 Documentaries Selected It is with great pleasure that the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the EFA Documentary Selection, a list of 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year's European Film Awards.  Ten documentary festivals have recommended to the committee one film each which has had its world premiere at the respective festival’s latest edition. Chosen in co-operation wit...

 

World competition, features and shorts

  WORLD COMPETITION – FEATURE FILMS     AN Zhanjun - THE UNEXPECTED / L’INATTENDU (Chine / China) Héctor BABENCO - MY HINDU FRIEND / MON AMI HINDOU (Brésil / Brazil) Radek BAJGAR - TEORIE TYGRA / TIGER THEORY (République tchèque / Czech Republic) Nic BALTHAZAR - EVERYBODY HAPPY (Belgique - Pays-Bas / Belgium - Netherlands) Amir Galván CERVERA, Mitzi Vanessa ARREOLA - LA 4º COMPANIA /&...

 

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A Swiss stamp to commemorate Locarno' s 70th anniversary

The Chicago International Children's Film Festival returns to entertain and delight this fall in theatres.

CinEast, the Central and Eastern European Film Festival in Luxembourg is approaching with big steps!

Films in Progress 30 will run on September 19th, 20th and 21st September

Ethan Hawke to receive a Donostia Award at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival

Newly elected 2016–17 Board of Governors

Cheryl Boone Isaacs was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

2016 Academy Film Scholars announced: Dr. Donna Kornhaber and Dr. Ellen Christine Scott

RIP Arthur Hiller Oscar®-nominated director and former Academy president

CinefestOZ 2016 Film Prize Jury Chair announced

Lorenzo di Bonaventura to be honored with Zurich Career Achievement Award

Hugh Grant will receive the Zurich Golden Icon Award at this year’s Festival, taking place September 22 – October 2

New Additions to the BIFF X Team!

Oldenburg honors Auteur Christophe Honoré with Retrospective

The competitors for the Horizontes Award

Post-Brexit: What Now? by Mike Downey, Deputy Chairman of the EFA Board

When Stellan Skarsgård Calls About His New Movie In Order of Disappearance, You Better Answer

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Jury of the first feature Prize

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12 distinct scientific and technical investigations have been launched for the 2016 Oscars®

12 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AREAS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR 2016 OSCARS® LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 12 distinct scientific and technical investigations have been launched for the 2016 Oscars®. These investigations are made public so individuals and companies with devices or claims of innovation within these areas will have the opportunity to submit achievements for review. The deadline to submit additional entri...

 

 

Hilton to Award $17,000 in Cash Prizes to Emerging Filmmakers

 

$17,000 in Cash Prizes to be Awarded   If you can’t take the heat … get out of the kitchen.  However, for five winning chefs, cooking up a great film will help them towards taking home $17,000 in cash prizes! Homewood Suites and Home2 Suites by Hilton challenge filmmakers to mix things up in its In the Kitchen video contest, hosted by the Audience Awards (AudAwards).   AudAwards competitions are an organic opportunity to cross-promote brands, proje...

 

 

KODAK Announces 2016 Student Scholarships; Recognizing Emerging Global Talent in Film

 

25th Annual Competition Awards $38,500 in Tuition & Film Grants   Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: KODK) announced the winners of its 25th annual KODAK Student Scholarship Program, Wednesday, Aug. 3, at the 70th annual University Film & Video Association (UFVA) Conference, held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This international competition is part of Kodak’s long-held commitment to encourage and foster the next generation of filmmakers and honors students who demonstrate...

 

Seattle's Transmedia & Independent Film Festival Awards

 

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CINE Celebrates: Soledad O'Brien to Receive CINE Leadership Award

CINE is pleased to present renowned journalist and CINE Golden Eagle Award recipient Soledad O'Brien with the 2016 CINE Leadership Award at CINE Celebrates: Washington, DC on October 19, 2016 at NYU Washington DC.   The CINE Leadership Award  is presented to those who have made influential and enduring contributions to the media industry. Past recipients include NBCUniversal Cable chairman Bonnie Hammer, former PBS and Paley Center CEO Pat Mitchell, renowned documentarian Stanl...

 

The FIPRESCI Gran Prix 2016 for Best Film of the year goes to ''Toni Erdmann'' by Maren Ade

The FIPRESCI Gran Prix 2016 for Best Film of the year goes to ''Toni Erdmann'' by Maren Ade, who will collect the award at the San Sebastian Festival   Share on Facebook   Share on Twitter I...

 

Locarno Cinelab Award

Donald Cried by Kris Avedisian     DONALD CRIED by Kris Avedisian wins the Cinelab Award at the Festival del film Locarno on Festival Scope. The award, offered by Cinelab Romania, has been given by the audience of the first Festival del film Locarno online event in partnership with Festival Scope.   The initiative between Festival del film Locarno and Festival Scope has presented a selection of 9 films from the Con...

 

50 Films de fiction retenus pour les European Film Awards 2016

La European Film Academy et EFA Productions annoncent la liste des 50 films de fiction proposés pour une nomination aux European Film Awards 2016 ! Avec 36 pays européens représentés, la liste témoigne, une fois de plus, de la grande diversité du cinéma européen. Chacun des 20 pays qui totalisent le plus de membres EFA, a désigné un film retenu d'office. Afin de compléter cette liste, un comité de s&eac...

 

 

Animaze winners

Awards   Canadian Student Film Award NEKA Nemnemiss VOLLANT-MCKENZIE (Wapikoni Mobile)   Special Accolade MERINGUE Louise PETIT-TRUCHON (Cégep du Vieux Montréal) International Student Film Award CATCH IT Paul Bar, Marion Demaret, Nadège Forner, Pierre-Baptiste Marty, Julien Robyn & Jordan Soler – France (ESMA) Special Accolade FULFILAMENT Rhiannon EVANS – UK (The National Film & Television School) Best Short Film TEA TIME...

 

12th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival Award Winners

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Cheryl Dunye is 2016 Iris Prize Jury Chair

 

Iris Prize, Cardiff’s international LGBT short film prize, is delighted to announce that Cheryl Dunye is to be the chair of this year’s International Jury who will be judging the 35 films competing for the coveted £30,000 prize. Director of the ground-breaking lesbian film, The Watermelon Woman which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, Cheryl is an award-winning screenwriter, actress and producer whose work has focused on race, sexuality and gender issues. In addition, she is ...

 

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Film Ministry of Love premiering at Montreal WFF

Directed by Pavo Marinković  a filmmaker from Croatia  MINISTRY OF LOVE will screen on 30th of August, 11:20 in Imperial Cinema.  Ministry of Love is a dramatic comedy, produced by Croatia, Czech Republic and Eurimages.  http://www.ministry-of-love.info/ ...

 

MAURO JOHN CAPECE on Sfashion

MAURO JOHN CAPECE, italian director, presented "SfFashion·" inspired in italian tradion and geniality of fashion design. ...

 

 

Claude Gagnon on the importance of FFM on his career

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World Premiere of Everybody Happy

NIC BALTAZAR, awarded belgian filmaker. Critics agreed his film "Everybody happy" is one of the most relevant movies during 40th FFM. he has previously been awarded with G.P: of the Americas, for "BEN-X" his first feature film. ...

 

 

Meet Maxime Motte, "How I met my father".

Maxime´s opera prima, magnificent comedy about tlerance, migration, about human being, Wonderful story, very well told. One of the fovorites of the public in Montreal World Film Festival. http://www.unifrance.org/film/40972/c... VIDEO BY lEOPOLDO sOTO ...

 

 

A presentation of Olympusat Network of 70 channels looking for spanish content at FFM

Leopoldo Soto speaks with Jesus Pinango Director of TV content strategy at OLYMPUSAT, based in Florida, a platform with more than 70 Channes, broadcasted in spanish, with 20 millions audience; sponsored FFM. interested in coproduction and help awarded directors in Latinoamerican Section "Glauber Rocha Award". ...

 

Et le bal continue by Georgi Balabanov showing at FFM

SYNOPSIS AND THE PARTY GOES ON takes an unflinching look at the various social and political masquerades that continue to take place in Bulgaria. The former Soviet satellite has joined the European Union with the American Dream deeply ingrained in its psyche. The journeys of a star news anchor, a muscular bodyguard turned representative, a former secret service agent and an anti-communist dissident collide in modern Bulgaria An unflinching look at the various social and political masquerades...

 

Mothers's Airfield premiering at Montreal World Film Festival.

Feng Yiwei Deputy General Manager Inner Mongolia Film Studio producer of Mothers's Airfield attending Montreal World Film Festival. "On the isolated grasslands of Inner Mongolia, a shepherdess adopts an orphan from the city. Years later after the boy has left to serve in the air force, a well-intentioned white lie gives the elderly shepherdess hope of seeing her adopted son one last time."   Director: Yupeng Zhou   ...

 

 

Olympusat and Huatulco Food and Film Festival Cocktail Party at ffm

Leopoldo Soto (Huatulco FF) and Claude Gagnon, Canadian Producer and director (currently finalising a western script for Telefilm (on a deadline for August 31) Claude a busy film professionnal, jury at FFM took some time to toast with Leopoldo and us, just between two movies. No secrets here we had mescal and great networking. Leopoldo with Monika Wilczynska director of Who I am Ugurcan Gursozlu (Golden Horn Founder, Turkish Film Events) with Leopoldo and Jean-Pierre Tadros. &Eac...

 

 

Interview with Ivan Trujillo, jury on the student films competition

Serge Losique with Yvan Trujillo IVAN TRUJILLO, Dir. del Festival I. de Cine en GUADALAJARA, jury  member in student film competition discusses with Festival founder Serge Losique by Leopoldo Soto ...

 

During 40TH Montreal Film Festival Turkish Ambassador in Canada welcomes the turkish filmmakers delegation.

Reception in honor of Turkish filmmakers, organised by Golden Horn founder Ugurcan Gursozlu (left and Leopoldo Soto, right).     Video By Leopoldo Soto ...

 

Serge Losique welcoming guests at "Kiss me like a Lover" opening Red Carpet

Despite the shadows and questions around the Festival's fate a huge crowd was waiting for Serge Losique at the Imperial August 25 at 7.00pm  for the official opening of the 40th edition (the toughest since the hotel and cinema partnerships fell at the last minute). Nevertheless guests of the festival were flocking on the red carpet, with elegant attire, waiting for the late Jury (some of them were late at the airport) and the complete cast and crew of Kiss me Like a Lover by Andre ...

 

Claude Gagnon opens the 40th edition of Montreal World Film Festival

CLAUDE GAGNON, recognized Quebecois film director, declares inaugurated the 40th Montreal World Film Festival, at Theatre Imperial. Serge Losique, founder and director of the festival, previosly presented the event. ...

 

André Forcier’s KISS ME LIKE A LOVER opens the 40th Montreal World Film Festival

André Forcier’s Embrasses-moi comme tu m’aimes opens today the 40th edition of the Montreal World Film Festival.  The film’s world premiere in the MWFF’s World Competition will mark the fourth time a Forcier feature has competed in the festival, having won a variety of awards for Une histoire inventée (1990), A Wind From Wyoming (1994) and Coteau Rouge (2011). Scripted by Forcier and Linda Pinet, the film was produced by...

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NYC Indie Film Festival May 2 – 7, 2017

Early deadline ends Aug 31

NYC Indie Film Festival honors the Best in Category which includes Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Narrative, Best Super Short, Best Music Video, as well as Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Be part of the New York City Independent Film Festival! The 8th Annual NYC Indie Film Festival will take place May 2 - 7, 2017 and will present indie films from around the world, panels, live shows, parties, and more! NYCIndieFF celebrates the power of independent filmmaker and offers awards valued at over $12,000 USD. Submit your film today for your chance to win and join us in New York next spring! .

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The 2017 Television & Film Awards gala will take place at the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 25th, 2017

Deadline October 15

The New York Festivals International TV & Film Awards honors the World’s Best TV and Films at its annual gala at NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 25th. Founded in 1957, NYF TV & Film Awards offers a powerhouse of categories including: 30 categories for documentaries and dozens of categories for news, drama and performers. New York Festivals welcomes network, studio, independent, and student productions of all lengths across all platforms. Late entries accepted until January 5th, 2017. For more information visit: http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/tvfilm/

NYF TV & Film Awards New Categories for 2017: Heroes, Ecotourism, and Best Use of Technology

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The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival April 19 – 22, 2017

The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival has been awarded several prestigious awards including one of the "Top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee" by Movie Maker Magazine. The MBIFF screens projects in a multi-million dollar theater, housing state of the art technology. 
Being billed as the East Coast's answer to Sundance, the MBIFF has a reputation for outstanding films including writings and blogs making the statement that the MBIFF has the best film line up in the World. We continue to be a venue for up and coming film makers as well as seasoned professionals. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance with their films, and will be available for Q&A sessions.

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New York Film & Television Festival December 3 – 4, 2016

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Mountain and Adventure Film Festival  February 16th - March 19th, 2017

Submit by November 30th

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General Submission: June 1st - August 31, 2016 
Late Submission: September 1st, 2016+ (acceptance at the Festival's sole discretion)

Official Line Up Announced: December 1st, 2016

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HALLOWEEN HORROR FEST  October 1 - 31, 2016

Deadline August 31

Celebrating world-class horror films and the filmmakers who terrify, disgust, and disturb us. 

Submission: June 1st - August 31st, 2016 (Submission Fee - $25)
Official selections will be announced September 13th, 2016
Official competition dates: October 1st - 23rd, 2016
Winners Week: October 24th - 31st, 2016

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Submission Period: June 1st - August 31st

We encourage you to submit all your films, both current and past. Great films don't go out of style.

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Fantasporto 2017
February 24 - March 4, 2017

EARLY ENTRY DEADLINE: OCTOBER 30TH, 2016!  

Fantasporto’2017 | Oporto International Film Festival announces our Call for Film Entries for the 37th annual festival, running February 24th till March 4th.

This Call is for Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi features and shorts in the Fantasy competition. The Director’s Week is for features only, in all genres except fantasy.

Deadlines for Entries for 2017 edition are October 30th (Early Call) and December 5th (Final Call).

Films can be submitted now using the film submission website www.fantasporto.com

Fantasporto enjoys incredible loyalty and support from the large film-appreciating community all over the World. In the last edition, Fantasporto was attended by over 20,000 enthusiastic genre film fans and over 200 members of the film press and industry.

Considered in 2015 as the first of the independent film festivals in the world by TRIPPER, Fantasporto is among the top film festivals  for the discovery of new talent, having revealed countless of now famous directors, producers and actors.

The World Heritage City by UNESCO of Porto, twice considered Europe’s Best Touristic Destination,  is another factor adding interest . Founded in 1981, the 37th edition has the support of the Portuguese State.

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Opening Gala dinner for the opening of Venice Festival cancelled in support to the communities struck by the earthquake

 La Biennale di Venezia announces that it has cancelled the gala dinner and reception on the beach that have traditionally followed the opening ceremony of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, scheduled for August 31st. La Biennale di Venezia shares in the bereavement, expresses its deepest sorrow for the victims, and its utmost solidarity and support to the communities struck by the earthquake. ...

 

Alice Lowe's PREVENGE premieres at Venice and TIFF ft. "breakout" performance from baby Della Moon

PREVENGE (Acquisition Title, ICM Partners and XYZ Films) World Premiere (Venice) / North American Premiere (TIFF) Written and Directed by Alice Lowe Starring Alice Lowe, Gemma Whelan, Katie Dickie, Joe Hartley   Featuring a "breakout" performance from baby Della Moon, a star both inside and outside the womb       Synopsis:  A pitch black, wryly British comedy from the mind of Alice Lowe (Sightseers, Hot Fuzz,  Paddington), Prevenge follows Rut...

 

Flanders line up for Toronto & Venice

Orizzonti   Home Fien Troch Seventeen-year-old Kevin starts an apprenticeship at his aunt’s store and moves in with her and her family. He quickly adapts to his new home and gets along with his cousin Sammy. Through Sammy’s circle of friends he meets John. John lives in an unbearable situation with his mother and Kevin feels the urge to help his new friend. One evening fate intervenes and questions ...

 

 

Are we not cats? Venice FF Premiere!

 

Are you a fan of David Lynch? Alex Cox? Then meet Xander Robin.  His debut feature film ARE WE NOT CATS has been selected as the closing film for the Venice Film Festival's prestigious Critics' Week. The only US film featured in the section this year, it's a macabre arthouse indie, centered around a hairy love story.  The film has already captured imaginations at IndieWi...

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Official Selection additions ''Kimi no Na wa / Your name'', ''Bigas x Bigas'' and ''Colossal''

The Japanese animated film ''Kimi no Na wa / Your name'', the living will of Bigas Luna ''Bigas x Bigas'' and ''Colossal'', the latest production by Nacho Vigalondo, complete the Official Selection   Share on Facebook   Share on Twitter Images in high resolution The Official Selection will include fou...

 

Zinemira will present more Basque productions than ever

The section will include seventeen films produced in the Basque Country, eight of which will compete for the Irizar Basque Film Award Ramón Barea will receive the Zinemira Award at the Basque Film and ETB Gala, setting for the premieres of ''Igelak (Frogs)'' and ''Agirre Lehendakaria'' The Zinemira section will include more Basque productions than ever at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. Seventeen productions will compose the overview...

 

The five filmmakers selected for Ikusmira Berriak share their experiences at the Tabakalera residencies

Leo Calice The residencies running for the second edition of Ikusmira Berriak, a programme providing support to audiovisual projects organised by San Sebastian, European Capital of Culture 2016, Tabakalera-International Centre for Contemporary culture and the San Sebastian Festival, with the collaboration of Donostia Kultura and the Filmoteca Vasca, began on August 15th. During the residencies, lasting for six weeks, filmmakers Leo Calice, Mikel Gurrea, Aitor and Amaia Merino and Kiro Rus...

 

Kormákur, Xiaogang and Sang-il join others to compete for the Golden Shell at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival

The first works by Bartosz M. Kowalski and Emiliano Torres round off the competitive Official Selection   Eiðurinn / The Oath Baltasar Kormákur (Iceland) Finnur is a successful heart surgeon and father of t...

 

A Baltic co-production and a film from the Netherlands join the New Directors selection

Sixteen filmmakers will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award     Two new titles complete the New Directors section uniting sixteen first or second works by filmmakers from all over the globe. Martijn Maria Smits (Breda, Netherlands, 1980) will present her second feature, Waldstille, whose lead character returns to his hometown after serving prison for causing his girlfriend’s death in an accident. The town is also home to his in-...

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CHATTY CATTIES is coming to NWFF - The talking cat movie

      it also gave these actors an opportunity to play the kinds of roles that they are not normally offered, roles in which their hearing loss is not part of the plot. Learning about deaf culture and working with these actors was truly a rewarding experience. This is a film filled with cats, though it isn’t necessarily about them. It’s really a film about communication and agenc...

 

First LFF Connects events unveiled for this year's Festival!

 

  The BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express®announces leading international talent working in film, television, music, art, games and creative technologies headlining this year’s LFF Connects events.   These ground-breaking, thought-provoking and spectacular talks and events will showcase talent and stimulate new collaborations and ideas between filmmakers and cr...

 

The Zurich Film Festival gala premiere lineup has been revealed.

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BFI African Odysseys present: Legacy Media Institute’s Filmmakers’ Workshop for Filmmakers of African Descent

 

African Odysseys present: Legacy Media Institute’s Filmmakers’ Workshop (LMI-BFI workshop aimed at budding filmmakers of African Descent/ Black British) A two-week intensive filmmakers’ workshop led by multi-award winning filmmaker Tim Reid. A unique opportunity to taught by the accomplished Hollywood filmmaker/actor. Date of Workshop -Monday 12 Sept - Saturday 24 Sept at the BFI Learning Space 1 Multi-award winning filmmaker Tim Reid presents a two-week intensive filmm...

 

"UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!" -- The Movie -- Starring 40 Former "Star Trek" Actors - World Premiere

 

The Sci-Fi Parody Adventure feature film "Unbelievable!!!!!" will have its World Premiere at a Sneak Peek Industry Screening in Hollywood. Red Carpet arrivals will begin at 6:15pm, and the screening will start at 7:30pm Wednesday, September 7, at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres at Hollywood & Highland, in Hollywood, CA, announced husband and wife filmmakers, Steven L. Fawcette and Angelique Fawcette today. The film was written and directed by Steven and produced by Angelique under their Arc...

 

 

Benjamin Teske’s “Strawberry Bubblegums” to open the 23rd Oldenburg International Film Festival

 

Lucy is 17 years old. The realization that she was conceived during a porn shoot has just been revealed to her. Furious and determined to find her biological father, Lucy tracks down her mother’s former “co-worker” Udo in a live sex shop. Reluctant at first, he ultimately decides to help young Lucy. On his motorcycle, the two ascend on a journey through Northern Germany. For Udo, this voyage down memory lane, takes him into the past life, once so familiar, now a complete stra...

 

 

Roadside Dokumentarfilm

http://roadside-dokumentarfilm.de/index.php?article_id=1&clang=2  

 

Meet Atomic Filmmakers in Berlin

The International Uranium Film Festival will be for the 5th time in Berlin. From September 28 to October 2nd, the festival will screen 22 nuclear movies and documentaries with the presence of more than 10 filmmakers from 8 countries. All films will be screened in English, German or with German or English subtitles. Venue: The cinema of the Kulturbrauerei in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin East. Program: MITTWOCH 28.9.2016, 19.00 Uhr THE IDEALIST - Geheimakte Grönland (Idealisten...

 

 

Award-winning producer Andrea Calderwood headlines Strategic Partners 2016

Award-winning producer Andrea Calderwood (The Last King of Scotland) will take the stage as the opening keynote speaker at Strategic Partners 2016 next month.   Calderwood, of U.K.-based Potboiler Productions, most recently produced Trespass Against Us, starring Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs, Frank) and Brendan Gleeson (In the Heart of the Sea, Edge of Tomorrow), which screens this fall at TIFF and the Atlantic Film Festival in a special presentation. Presented by the Atlantic Film Fes...

 

Mongrel International has acquired international sales rights to THE LEVELLING written and directed by Hope Dickson Leach

 

Mongrel International announced today that it has acquired international sales rights to THE LEVELLING written and directed by Hope Dickson Leach, starring Ellie Kendrick, Jack Holden, Joe Blakemore and David Troughton, and produced by Rachel Robey of Wellington Films. The film will premiere in the Discovery section of TIFF with other notable upcoming festival premieres to be announced shortly.  In THE LEVELLING trainee veterinarian Clover Catto (ELLIE KENDRICK) returns to the farm wh...

 

Jeremy Renner lands role in "Arctic Justice" for Ambi

Two-time Academy Award® nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Hurt Locker,” “The Avengers,” “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol” and “Rogue Nation”) has signed on to voice the lead character (Swifty) in the epic 3D, CGI animated family film “Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad” from Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s AMBI Group. Renner will lead an ensemble voice cast for "Arctic Justice...

 

The 2016 Action On Film Official Award Nominations for Film and Video

  The 2016 Action On Film Official Award Nominations for Film and Video are NOW OUT on the AOF website! Click the link below to check out the official nominations, and congratulations to everyone that received an award nomination! http://media.wix.com/ugd/28ac82_ab7e6bcbbde640beb7e985f2be2827f...

 

IM Global has launched GO GLOBAL, a new venture devoted to maximizing the international exposure of Chinese cinema

 

The prolific international film and television studio IM Global has launched Go Global, a new venture devoted to maximizing the international exposure of Chinese cinema and representing non-Chinese films on the Chinese festival circuit. Go Global’s team led by industry veteran Clément Magar is based in Beijing and offers local producers, financiers and talent a wide range of services from festival strategy, festival booking, festival media promotion and event production. Go Global w...

 

Covert Media is announcing the launch of a new foreign language label, Lexica Films

 

Independent production, financing and distribution company Covert Media has launched a newly formed international sales label –Lexica Films -championing foreign language feature film titles for the worldwide marketplace, it was announced today by Covert Media’s CEO Paul Hanson. Covert will add the foreign language titles to its quickly growing sales and production slate to present to buyers around the globe. Covert Media is aiming to launch 5-10 films per year through Lexica, identi...

 

 

 

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Enoc The Resplendent Stargate by Martha Marin Premiering in Cannes

World premiere in Cannes

An artistic journey between fiction and documentary film at the same time, throughout space, time, dimensions, light and music, that are conducting through the full sequence to a live experience of Enoc the Resplendent Stargate Energy®

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Paranoid Girls 

Paranoid Girls Comedy by Pedro del Santo was qualified for Oscar selection running for best film, best original song...

Ana, Paula and Veronica become fascinated by modeling and the life that it offers. Yet, they gradually begin to discover the dark side of fashion hidden behind the fame and glamour of the spotlights. The women experience downfall as they engage with an antagonistic photographer who drags models into a high stakes abyss of danger. The women learn to value friendship over the lures of fashion pitfalls and enjoy life's simplicities in the end.

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Revolution by Rob Stewart (Sharkwater) 

over 40 festival wins so far

Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.

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Get Happy by Manoj Annadurai 

Feature - Feel Good Movie  - World premiered in Montreal World Film Festival Winner best romantic comedy in Manhattan Fest

Charlie Kane can’t catch a break. He grew into a man who expects the worse out of life and gets it. But that changes when, by chance, he meets a bright, sunny sprite of a woman named Holly who turns him from a dour drip into someone finally allowing himself to be happy.Then a bus flattens her before Charlie eyes. Charlie opts for suicide but can’t even successfully give up on life. Left with no other choice, he adopts Holly’s ethos of positivity and just decides to be happy... by ignoring all the bad things in life. But his cynical best friend isn’t buying Charlie’s new-found happiness and sets out to save Charlie by making him miserable again. 

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The 36th Atlantic Film Festival announces full festival program for event, Sept. 15 - 22 in Halifax, NS

The 36th annual Atlantic Film Festival announces its full festival program, featuring over 225 films and a full slate of special events, to be presented over eight days in Halifax, September 15-22. "This year we are delivering as your curator...

 

The TIFF Industry Conference lineup

The TIFF Industry Conference will feature a lineup of internationally-focused premium programming comprised of high-profile speakers, progressive discussions, and innovative strategies for creative and business leaders. The seven-day Conference takes place during the 41st Toronto International Film Festival® from September 9 -15, and includes Mogul sessions with Cheryl Boone Isaacs (President, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences), David Glasser (President & COO, The Weinstein...

 

New Orleans Film Society Announces 27th Annual New Orleans Film Festival, October 12th – 20th, 2016

New Orleans Film Society Announces 27th Annual New Orleans Film Festival, October 12th – 20th, 2016   Festival unveils documentary, narrative and Louisiana feature competition lineup + official program artwork   The New Orleans Film Society (NOFS) announced today the feature competition lineup for the 27th annual New Orleans Film Festival (NOFF), taking place October 12th – 20th at venues across New Orleans, with an increased presence in the downtown...

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Napa Valley Film Festival Celebrity Tributes include Zoey Deutch, Chloe Grace Moretz and Glen Powell.

Celebrity Tributes include Zoey Deutch, Chloe Grace Moretz and Glen Powell. Additional Tributes to be announced in September. Napa, California (August 25, 2016) – The sixth annual Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF) is pleased to announce its first three honorees that will receive Tributes during the sixth annual edition of the festival to be held November 9-13, 2016. Additional honorees will be named at a future date. The highly anticipated Celebrity Tributes, salutin...

 

Additional Master Classes at the TIFF Industry Conference.

Ewan McGregor has established himself as one of cinema's most versatile actors - equally at home in independent film as he is with big budget studio fare. He joins us to discuss his career, his ambitious directorial debut, American Pastoral, and his goals as a director. Co-presented by Pinewood Studios. Rob Reiner returns to TIFF with his new film LBJ, and to discuss the versatility of his career in film and television, and hi...

 

Sunscreen Film Fest Announces New Programming Team

Experienced Programmers to add experience and connections: Joe Restain...

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Special Discount for Script to Screen Summit | September 9, 2016 • Toronto, Canada |

Script to Screen Summit | September 9, 2016 • Toronto, Canada |  You have the Script We have a way to get it to the Screen. Learn how it’s done from the Script to Screen Summit Crew: Miranda Bailey, Producer, Cold Iron Pictures: Actor, writer, director, and ...

 

 

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DESTINÉE de Zhang Wei présenté au 40e FFM

Le destin de chacun est-il scellé dès la naissance ? - Jeudi 1er septembre à 19 h au Cinéma Impérial -  Le film Destinée, écrit et realisé par le cinéaste chinois Zhang Wei (dont le précédent film Factory Boss a reçu le prix du meilleur acteur du FFM en 2014) sera présenté durant le 40e Festival des films du monde de Montréal dans la section consacré...

 

...et pendant ce temps à Montréal le lancement de la 5e édition des Jardins de lumière

La 5e édition de Jardins de lumière,  l’événement phare de l’automne à Montréal débutera le 2 septembre au Jardin botanique de Montréal. Dès la tombée du jour, découvrez l’univers du Fils du Ciel, l’empereur de Chine  grâce à la reproduction en lanternes des trois grands palais de la Cour extérieure de la Cité interdite de Pék...

 

Et le bal continue de Georgi Balabanov au FFM

  Elena Atsarova, jeune ingénieure bulgare surdiplômée, gagne sa vie depuis six ans en interrogeant ses concitoyens sur toutes sortes de sujets, de leurs conditions économiques à leurs opinions politiques. Mangez-vous à votre faim ? Croyez-vous en la démocratie ? En l'Union européenne ? Regrettez-vous le communisme ? Pensez-vous, comme beaucoup de gens, que votre personnel politique truque les élections ? De l'&eacut...

 

FFM: Ils ont déclaré...

Quand les lumières se sont éteintes et qu'est apparue sur l'écran l'affiche du 40e Festival des films du monde, les spectateurs ont spontanément applaudi. Plus fort que d'habitude. Comme pour bien faire comprendre à qui veut les entendre qu'ils ne sont peut-être plus aussi nombreux qu'auparavant, mais que leur présence compte. MARC-ANDRÉ LUSSIER La Presse Coupures obligent, le FFM s'appellera désorm...

 

21es Rencontres du cinéma francophone en Beaujolais

Affiche des 21es Rencontres du cinéma francophone en Beaujolais qui se dérouleront du 7 au 13 novembre 2016 au cinéma Les 400 Coups de Villefranche-sur-Saône ...

 

27e édition du Festival du film britannique de Dinard

Du 28 septembre au 2 octobre 2016, Dinard, la ville la plus british de Bretagne, célèbrera la 27e édition de son Festival du film britannique, dont la marraine est cette année Rebecca O’Brien, productrice des films de Ken Loach depuis 30 ans. Elle interviendra au cours du festival pour nous parler du cinéma britannique en cette période post-Brexit.   Le cinéma britannique à Dinard se porte bien ! Et cette année encor...

 

Prix du Jury - 8e Festival de cinéma Les Percéides (24-28 août 2016)

<< EMBRACE THE SERPENT >> (L’ÉTREINTE DU SEPENT) DU CINÉASTE COLOMBIEN CIRO GUERRA, << LA DÉMOLITION FAMILIALE >> DU DOCUMENTARISTE PATRICK DAMIEN, << HAPPY END >> DU CINÉASTE TCHÈQUE YAN SASKA, << HARRY PORTRAIT D’UN DÉTECTIVE PRIVÉ >> DU RÉALISATEUR QUÉBÉCOIS MAXIME DESRUISSEAUX. LE LONG MÉTRAGE << KING DAVE >> DU CINÉASTE QUÉB&Eac...

 

Top 10 des entrées hebdo France du 17/08/2016 au 23/08/2016

Rang Titre du film Distributeur Entrées semaine France Nbre de copies M/C  Cumul   entrées   S 1 COMME DES BÊTES UNIVERSAL PICTURES 422 001 713 592 2 613 282 4 2 ...

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So sad we lost our friend Donald Ranvaud, in jury duty at FFM 40, he was 62 and a great producer

A friend passed away...I remember when we were both 60 in Cannes having fun in front of Salle du 60ème... See the photo!
I was so happy to see him in Montreal, (he arrived a bit late and missed the grand opening of the 40th edition of Serge Losique's Festival). British film producer Donald Ranvaud, who was a jury member in the Montreal World Film Festival (WFF), died suddenly in his hotel room on Sunday night of a heart attack. He was 62. Ranvaud was known for producing the film CITY OF GOD.
Filmfestivals.com wishes him a safe trip with God.

 

 

FFM 40 concludes with Awards and Cash prizes...and a sad note of a jury friend passing away RIP Donald Ranvaud

AWARDS OF THE 40th WORLD FILM FESTIVAL,  MONTREAL 2016 September 5   Jury Pierre-Henri Deleau, film festival director, producer, France Claude Gagnon, director, Canada Goran Markovic, director, Serbia Donald Ranvaud, producer, Italy / UK Eliseo Subiela, director, Argentina   FEATURE FILMS Grand Prize of the Americas (Best Film): 100,000$ - USTAV REPUBLIKE HRVATSKE / THE CONSTITUTION by Rajko Grlic (Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Macedonia) Special Gr...

 

Awards - 47th Montreal Student Film Festival 2016

AWARDS - 47th STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2016 NATIONAL COMPETITION (CANADA)   NORMAN McLAREN AWARD (Best Film) - 10,000 $ VOYEUR by Matthew Read (Humber College, Toronto, ON)   JURY AWARD: Fantasy Guise by Matthew Fitzgibbon (BCIT: British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, BC)   BEST ANIMATION FILM: AN ASTRONAUT'S TALE by Cesar Belocora (Dawson College, Montreal, QC)   BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM: READERS OF THE HOLOCAUST by Chorong Kim...

 

Montreal 40th FFM "DUST" by Godze Kural (Turkey)

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Montreal FFM 40th "Ariana forever" short by Katharina Rivilis

 

Interview by Leopoldo Soto Kathtarina is a student in film, in Berlin at DFFB ...

 

Montreal FFM 40th showing "The circle" by Ruken Tekes - interview

Interview by Leopoldo Soto in Montreal Shortfilm, describes the Kurdish kids discrimination, at school. more at https://www.facebook.com/theCircleByRukenTekes/ ...

 

Lucia Miranda on her film Carne Propia - clean meat docu showing at FFM

 

 

Kemtiyu, Sėex anta au FFM un film de Ousmane-William MBAYE

Ousmane-William MBAYE LES FILMS MAME YANDE - AUTOPRODUCTION KEMTIYU SÉEX ANTA - CHEIKH ANTA UN FILM DE OUSMANE WILLIAM MBAYE SYNOPSIS "L'Homme Universel", "Le Contemporain Capital", "Le Géant du Savoir", "Le Dernier Pharaon"… titrent les journaux sénégalais au lendemain de sa mort, le 7 février 1986. Trente ans plus tard, "KEMTIYU" dresse le portrait de Cheikh Anta ...

 

Claude Gagnon Jury Member at FFM Montreal 2016 talks about the festival, and his fellow jury members perceptions of FFM

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Film Ministry of Love premiering at Montreal WFF

Directed by Pavo Marinković  a filmmaker from Croatia  MINISTRY OF LOVE will screen on 30th of August, 11:20 in Imperial Cinema.  Ministry of Love is a dramatic comedy, produced by Croatia, Czech Republic and Eurimages.  http://www.ministry-of-love.info/ ...

 

MAURO JOHN CAPECE on Sfashion

MAURO JOHN CAPECE, italian director, presented "SfFashion·" inspired in italian tradion and geniality of fashion design. ...

 

Claude Gagnon on the importance of FFM on his career

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Meet Anthony Curby from filmireland.net/

 

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World Premiere of Everybody Happy

NIC BALTAZAR, awarded belgian filmaker. Critics agreed his film "Everybody happy" is one of the most relevant movies during 40th FFM. he has previously been awarded with G.P: of the Americas, for "BEN-X" his first feature film. ...

 

Meet Maxime Motte, "How I met my father".

Maxime´s opera prima, magnificent comedy about tlerance, migration, about human being, Wonderful story, very well told. One of the fovorites of the public in Montreal World Film Festival. http://www.unifrance.org/film/40972/c... VIDEO BY lEOPOLDO sOTO ...

 

A presentation of Olympusat Network of 70 channels looking for spanish content at FFM

Leopoldo Soto speaks with Jesus Pinango Director of TV content strategy at OLYMPUSAT, based in Florida, a platform with more than 70 Channes, broadcasted in spanish, with 20 millions audience; sponsored FFM. interested in coproduction and help awarded directors in Latinoamerican Section "Glauber Rocha Award". ...

 

Et le bal continue by Georgi Balabanov showing at FFM

ET LE BAL CONTINUE WILL SCREEN SEPTEMBRE 2 @  7 PM AT THEATRE OUTREMONT. SYNOPSIS AND THE PARTY GOES ON takes an unflinching look at the various social and political masquerades that continue to take place in Bulgaria. The former Soviet satellite has joined the European Union with the American Dream deeply ingrained in its psyche. The journeys of a star news anchor, a muscular bodyguard turned representative, a former secret service agent and an anti-communist dissident collide in mo...

 

Mothers's Airfield premiering at Montreal World Film Festival.

Feng Yiwei Deputy General Manager Inner Mongolia Film Studio producer of Mothers's Airfield attending Montreal World Film Festival. "On the isolated grasslands of Inner Mongolia, a shepherdess adopts an orphan from the city. Years later after the boy has left to serve in the air force, a well-intentioned white lie gives the elderly shepherdess hope of seeing her adopted son one last time."   Director: Yupeng Zhou   ...

 

Olympusat and Huatulco Food and Film Festival Cocktail Party at ffm

Leopoldo Soto (Huatulco FF) and Claude Gagnon, Canadian Producer and director (currently finalising a western script for Telefilm (on a deadline for August 31) Claude a busy film professionnal, jury at FFM took some time to toast with Leopoldo and us, just between two movies. No secrets here we had mescal and great networking. Leopoldo with Monika Wilczynska director of Who I am Ugurcan Gursozlu (Golden Horn Founder, Turkish Film Events) with Leopoldo and Jean-Pierre Tadros. &Eac...

 

Interview with Ivan Trujillo, jury on the student films competition

Serge Losique with Yvan Trujillo IVAN TRUJILLO, Dir. del Festival I. de Cine en GUADALAJARA, jury  member in student film competition discusses with Festival founder Serge Losique by Leopoldo Soto ...

 

During 40TH Montreal Film Festival Turkish Ambassador in Canada welcomes the turkish filmmakers delegation.

Reception in honor of Turkish filmmakers, organised by Golden Horn founder Ugurcan Gursozlu (left and Leopoldo Soto, right).     Video By Leopoldo Soto ...

 

Serge Losique welcoming guests at "Kiss me like a Lover" opening Red Carpet

Despite the shadows and questions around the Festival's fate a huge crowd was waiting for Serge Losique at the Imperial August 25 at 7.00pm  for the official opening of the 40th edition (the toughest since the hotel and cinema partnerships fell at the last minute). Nevertheless guests of the festival were flocking on the red carpet, with elegant attire, waiting for the late Jury (some of them were late at the airport) and the complete cast and crew of Kiss me Like a Lover by Andre ...

 

Claude Gagnon opens the 40th edition of Montreal World Film Festival

CLAUDE GAGNON, recognized Quebecois film director, declares inaugurated the 40th Montreal World Film Festival, at Theatre Imperial. Serge Losique, founder and director of the festival, previosly presented the event. ...

 

 

André Forcier’s KISS ME LIKE A LOVER opens the 40th Montreal World Film Festival

André Forcier’s Embrasses-moi comme tu m’aimes opens today the 40th edition of the Montreal World Film Festival.  The film’s world premiere in the MWFF’s World Competition will mark the fourth time a Forcier feature has competed in the festival, having won a variety of awards for Une histoire inventée (1990), A Wind From Wyoming (1994) and Coteau Rouge (2011). Scripted by Forcier and Linda Pinet, the film was produced by...

 

World premiere of ZAZY by MX Obert (STRATOSPHERE GIRL, UNDER THE MILKY WAY) in Montreal World FF

 

Zazy By M.X.Oberg Zazy (18) is interning for a tailor in a small Italian town, where she meets Marianna (39), a wealthy elegant German, who is there on holidays with her children. Soon she discovers that Marianna may be romantically involved with her boss Patrick. When Patrick goes missing after a trip with Marianna, together with her boyfriend Tomek (21), Zazy starts blackmailing her. Soon enough the young couple have Marianna doing their bidding – a sadistic power play en...

 

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The 73rd edition of the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematigrafico off and running

By Alex Deleon 

The 73rd edition of the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematigrafico, otherwise known as the Venice Film Festival, is off and running.

With an overwhelming cornucopia  of films of all kinds to choose from --new Hollywood star vehicles, old restored classics, documentaries and feature films from around the globe, shorts, experimental films, etc.  one is faced with what the Italians call "l'imbarazzo della scelta"  -- Choice Overload  -- which is par for the course at major festivals like Venice. 

In such a situation veteran festivaleers such as Yours Truly try to see unusual films which are not likely to turn up elsewhere and, for the time being, take a pass on most big name films which which will definitely show up at other festivals  or at commercial screenings on the streets of all major cities.

In the first couple of days the first five films I have looked in on were all in different theaters and all in different languages, to wit; Icelandic, Hebrew, English, Croatian, and Korean. (Capsule reviews below) 

The grand opener on August 31 was the American biggie "LA LA Land", starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, about a jazz pianist who falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. Youthful director. Damien Chazelle, 31, had a critical success "Whiplash" two years ago which also dealt with musicians. The stars graced the opening night red carpet and the pic went over big with the Italian audience and critics.

 

Films representing the best of Chilean industry at Venice

One Chilean film representing the best of our industry at Venice, the much-awaited feature El Cristo ciego (The Blind Christ), by Christopher Murray. For us each and every achievement made by our filmmakers is of great importance, and w...

 

Michele Vannucci's debut feature film, ll più grande sogno

FIRST LOOK AT IL PIU GRANDE SOGNO (I WAS A DREAMER) BY MICHELE VANNUCCI Michele Vannucci's debut feature film, ll più grande sogno (I was a dreamer) is one of 18 films chosen for the Orizzonti section (Horizons) at the Venice Film Festival (31 August - September 10th). The film will have its world premiere on September 4th and is also competing for a Lion of the Future “Luigi De Laurentiis&rdqu...

 

"BOZZETTO NON TROPPO" a film by MARCO BONFANTI - a film about animation legend Bruno Bozzetto.

Zagora and Istituto Luce Cinecittà  in  collaboration with Sky Arte HD presents BOZZETTO NON TROPPO a film by Marco Bonfanti A production Zagora and Istituto Luce-Cinecittà in collaboration with Sky Arte HD Executive producer Anna Godano  with the participation of Studio Bozzetto & Co. and Bruno Bozzetto Distribution distributed in Italy by ISTITUTO LUCE CINECITTÀ    ...

 

After Golden Lion winner From Afar, Venezuela is back in Venice with La Soledad

Venezuelan director Jorge Thielen Armand went back into his memories to portrait his childhood old decrepit grandparents house that will soon be demolished. Based on a true story and played by the real inhabitants, La Soledad depicts how relationships and moral values are affected by the economic chaos. The old mansion not only reflects a family's dispersal but also today's Venezuela, forgotten in time. Filming in Venezuela includes technological and logistical constraints.&nbs...

 

Red Carpet on Mostra opening film

Official partner of the Film Festival for over a decade, Jaeger-LeCoultre reaffirmed its commitment to encouraging and celebrating filmmaking at the opening ceremony that took place at Palazzo del Cinema in Venice last night. Jaeger-LeCoultre, gathered close friends of the Brand to celebrate cinema. Throughout the evening guests were humbled and thoughtful about Italy's recent tragedy. The world premiere of Damien Chazelle's film La La Lan...

 

Emma Stone and Damiene Chazelle bring "La La land" to open the 73. International Film Festival

Emma Stone and Damiene Chazelle, respectively the actress and the director of “La La land”, the opening film of the 73. International Film Festival, have been the first guests in our Lounge. Arrived on board of 2 Jaguar F-peace, the talent reached the indoor and outdoor spaces of the former greenhouses of C.I.G.A. hotels. There, the journalists, carrying out television and print interviews, got the plot of the film. Mia and Sebastian court the...

 

Austrian Documentary Cinema Futures in Venice Classics

 

CINEMA FUTURES, is a new documentary by Michael Palm (Edgar G. Ulmer - The Man Off-screen / Low Definition Control)  on the future of analogue film, archives and cinema. It is screening in the Venice Classics section of the Venice Film Festival on September 2nd. It was initiated by the Austrian Film Museum on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 2014.     Friday, September 2 - Venice Classics   CINEMA FUTURES A film by M...

 

New York Film Academy Student Showcase to Open the Market at the 73rd Venice Film Festival

 

  The New York Film Academy (NYFA) is proud to announce a special student showcase as part of this year’s 73rd Venice Film Festival Market. Providing an unprecedented opportunity for exposure and networking to a selection of our talented students, NYFA's Venice Showcase will feature 5 short films spanning all three academic departments – fiction, documentary and animation. The NYFA event is set to open the brand-new Venice Production Bridge platform in the m...

 

Venice Festival Homage to Mr. Abbas Kiarostami- 76 Minutes & 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami

 

The 73rd Venice International Film Festival has dedicated this edition of the Festival to Mr. Abbas Kiarostami and this Homage will include two short films by Mr. Kiarostami, "24 Frames" and "Take Me Home" as well as a very brand new documentary by Seifollah Samadian (documentary filmmaker and photographer of ABC Africa and Five), "76 Minutes & 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami". This is a Portrait of an artist, whose exceptional approach to Art and Life, de...

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NYC Indie Film Festival May 2 – 7, 2017

Regular deadline November 30, 2016

NYC Indie Film Festival honors the Best in Category which includes Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Narrative, Best Super Short, Best Music Video, as well as Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Be part of the New York City Independent Film Festival! The 8th Annual NYC Indie Film Festival will take place May 2 - 7, 2017 and will present indie films from around the world, panels, live shows, parties, and more! NYCIndieFF celebrates the power of independent filmmaker and offers awards valued at over $12,000 USD. Submit your film today for your chance to win and join us in New York next spring! .

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The 2017 Television & Film Awards gala will take place at the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 25th, 2017

Deadline October 15

The New York Festivals International TV & Film Awards honors the World’s Best TV and Films at its annual gala at NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 25th. Founded in 1957, NYF TV & Film Awards offers a powerhouse of categories including: 30 categories for documentaries and dozens of categories for news, drama and performers. New York Festivals welcomes network, studio, independent, and student productions of all lengths across all platforms. Late entries accepted until January 5th, 2017. For more information visit: http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/tvfilm/

NYF TV & Film Awards New Categories for 2017: Heroes, Ecotourism, and Best Use of Technology

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The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival April 19 – 22, 2017

The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival has been awarded several prestigious awards including one of the "Top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee" by Movie Maker Magazine. The MBIFF screens projects in a multi-million dollar theater, housing state of the art technology. 
Being billed as the East Coast's answer to Sundance, the MBIFF has a reputation for outstanding films including writings and blogs making the statement that the MBIFF has the best film line up in the World. We continue to be a venue for up and coming film makers as well as seasoned professionals. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance with their films, and will be available for Q&A sessions.

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Ramsgate International Film and TV Festival March 23 -26, 2017

September 30, 2016 Regular Deadline

The first Ramsgate International Film and TV Festival will be held in Ramsgate with its stunning Royal Harbour, unique in England. It is run by the Ramsgate Film & TV Institute, which will also run a variety of screenings throughout the year to bring international independent cinema to local audiences.

President of the Festival is Brenda Blethyn (Secret & Lies, Vera,...), BAFTA, Globe and Cannes Best Actress Winner and Oscar Nominated. Brenda will also pick the winner of the First Feature Film Category.

The Festival focus is to show new works and help promote film makers. Screenings are complemented by a strong programme of quality events and seminars, with industry professionals of high reputation, who have already confirmed their attendance. Do check the website for more all news as they come. 
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Mountain and Adventure Film Festival  February 16th - March 19th, 2017

Submit by November 30th

We encourage you to submit all your great films, both current and past. Great mountain and adventure films don't go out of style. Film Festival Flix is the intersection between filmmakers and film lovers, working to build the most complete Mountain & Adventure film library, so audiences can find and purchase every film they've heard about in the past 50+ years.

General Submission: June 1st - August 31, 2016 
Late Submission: September 1st, 2016+ (acceptance at the Festival's sole discretion)

Official Line Up Announced: December 1st, 2016

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HALLOWEEN HORROR FEST  October 1 - 31, 2016

Deadline August 31

Celebrating world-class horror films and the filmmakers who terrify, disgust, and disturb us. 

Submission: June 1st - August 31st, 2016 (Submission Fee - $25)
Official selections will be announced September 13th, 2016
Official competition dates: October 1st - 23rd, 2016
Winners Week: October 24th - 31st, 2016

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Submission Period: June 1st - August 31st

We encourage you to submit all your films, both current and past. Great films don't go out of style.

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Fantasporto 2017
February 24 - March 4, 2017

EARLY ENTRY DEADLINE: OCTOBER 30TH, 2016!  

Fantasporto’2017 | Oporto International Film Festival announces our Call for Film Entries for the 37th annual festival, running February 24th till March 4th.

This Call is for Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi features and shorts in the Fantasy competition. The Director’s Week is for features only, in all genres except fantasy.

Deadlines for Entries for 2017 edition are October 30th (Early Call) and December 5th (Final Call).

Films can be submitted now using the film submission website www.fantasporto.com

Fantasporto enjoys incredible loyalty and support from the large film-appreciating community all over the World. In the last edition, Fantasporto was attended by over 20,000 enthusiastic genre film fans and over 200 members of the film press and industry.

Considered in 2015 as the first of the independent film festivals in the world by TRIPPER, Fantasporto is among the top film festivals  for the discovery of new talent, having revealed countless of now famous directors, producers and actors.

The World Heritage City by UNESCO of Porto, twice considered Europe’s Best Touristic Destination,  is another factor adding interest . Founded in 1981, the 37th edition has the support of the Portuguese State.

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The seven films in the Culinary Zinema section will take us to the origins, traditions and future of food

Six documentaries and a fiction feature will compete for the Tokyo Gohan Award in the San Sebastian Festival section combining cinema and gastronomy Tickets for the screening-dinner combo will be available for purchase from Monday, September 5th   Culinary Zinema, the section combining film and gastronomy, turns six this year. Created in collaboration with the Berlin Festival and organised jointly with the Basque Culinary Center, this edition it brin...

 

 

The San Sebastian Festival and Creative Europe MEDIA organize the second edition of ''Audiences in motion''

Audiences in Motion: Listening to the User Donostia - San Sebastian - San Telmo Museum September 18 - 9:30 am   Audiences in motion will celebrate its second edition during the 64th San Sebastian Festival. The event will continue to study the central position held by the audience in the production, distribution and exhibition of audiovisual contents in the digital era. This year’s event is entitled Audiences in Motion: Listening to the User. The conference, jointly org...

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Joseph and Vincent Almudever - The brothers who fought against Hitler and Franco.

Happy Birthday Greetings to "our" NO PASARAN Protagonists: The french brothers Joseph Almudever, now 97 years, and Vincent Almudever, now 99 years old, are still combative on the way - and they keep up with the times www.facebook.com/josealmudevermateu. Joseph Almudever (left), Vincent Almudever (right) ...

 

 

"Dope Fiend" set to World Premiere at The Newark International Film Festival

In New York City, real events are often every bit as exciting, intriguing and shocking as well crafted fiction.  The urban drama “Dope Fiend”, based on a true story, illustrates that to the fullest in it's recently released teaser trailer promising what is sure to be an unforgettable look at the dark side of gentrification, a furious drug war, love, hate and loyalty, all played out on the streets of Brooklyn.     Brooklyn, NY - Dope Vision, the product...

 

 

 

Island City, Review: Fun and the Gun, Idiot and the Box, BeauT and IT

Early on in Ruchika Oberoi’s Island City, an IT company Manager reminds his employees that its temporary tagline, the three words, all beginning with F, do not constitute the company’s ‘motto’. The latter consists of three words beginning with O. Three, just in case you missed the point. She goes on to mount three stories, tenuously linked, based in Mumbai, but not directly about the trials and tribulations of living in a city that once consisted ...

 

Lineup for the 43rd Telluride Film Festival

 

Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, today announced its official program selections for the 43rd edition of the Telluride Film Festival. TFF’s annual celebration of artistic excellence brings together cinema enthusiasts, filmmakers and artists to discover the best in world cinema in the beautiful mountain town of Telluride, Colorado. TFF will screen over seventy feature films, short films and revival programs representing twenty-two countries, along with speci...

 

 

 

Film Fest Gent will open the 43rd edition on 11 October with Cannes Palme d’Or winner “I, Daniel Blake”.

It will be the third time that the filmmaker himself will attend the biggest festival in Belgium.  The tale of Daniel Blake, a 59-year-old widower carpenter from Newcastle, who is fighting to hold on to his welfare benefits, when he spots a woman in a similar predicament at the welfare office, he tries to help her & the two kids get set up... leading into a surrogate family. Artistic director Film Fest Gent, Patrick Duynslaegher about the film: &qu...

 

Tomorrow and Friday in Venice: best of contemporary cinema screenings at Casa del Cinema.

 

Verona International Film Festival and Venice Film Week announced the winners of its competition categories. Top awards went to Sibylle / Like A Cast Shadow, Figurine, Free  and Yximalloo. The award winning films of both festivals will be screened on September 1st and 2nd 2016 at the Casa del Cinema in Venice during the first annual ‘Contemporary Cinema Now’ event. Check out the festival trailer:

Selected from more than 2.000 submissions, th...

 

“Divines”, Cannes Film Festival phenomenon on screens

Houda Benyamina’s feature film – Groupe Ouest 2013 – in French cinemas on 31 August 2016   Divines, 2016 Cannes Film Festival revelation, will be on French screens on 31 August. Cannes prize-winning (Caméra d’Or 2016), Houda Benyamina‘s first feature energy and humanity left its mark on the festival: “Benyamina and her ’til-now totally unknown cast were mobbed on stage with cheers and claps.” (BFI) In 2013, Ho...

 

 

Roadside Storytelling

Now at Imgur - Roadside Storytelling http://imgur.com/user/RoadsideDokFilm/submitted . Each week, we post a new picture story about our films and about us.   ...

 

 

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Enoc The Resplendent Stargate by Martha Marin Premiering in Cannes

World premiere in Cannes

An artistic journey between fiction and documentary film at the same time, throughout space, time, dimensions, light and music, that are conducting through the full sequence to a live experience of Enoc the Resplendent Stargate Energy®

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Paranoid Girls 

Paranoid Girls Comedy by Pedro del Santo was qualified for Oscar selection running for best film, best original song...

Ana, Paula and Veronica become fascinated by modeling and the life that it offers. Yet, they gradually begin to discover the dark side of fashion hidden behind the fame and glamour of the spotlights. The women experience downfall as they engage with an antagonistic photographer who drags models into a high stakes abyss of danger. The women learn to value friendship over the lures of fashion pitfalls and enjoy life's simplicities in the end.

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Revolution by Rob Stewart (Sharkwater) 

over 40 festival wins so far

Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.

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Get Happy by Manoj Annadurai 

Feature - Feel Good Movie  - World premiered in Montreal World Film Festival Winner best romantic comedy in Manhattan Fest

Charlie Kane can’t catch a break. He grew into a man who expects the worse out of life and gets it. But that changes when, by chance, he meets a bright, sunny sprite of a woman named Holly who turns him from a dour drip into someone finally allowing himself to be happy.Then a bus flattens her before Charlie eyes. Charlie opts for suicide but can’t even successfully give up on life. Left with no other choice, he adopts Holly’s ethos of positivity and just decides to be happy... by ignoring all the bad things in life. But his cynical best friend isn’t buying Charlie’s new-found happiness and sets out to save Charlie by making him miserable again. 

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Our Mission for Ramsgate International Film and TV Festival

The first Ramsgate International Film and TV Festival will be held in Ramsgate with its stunning Royal Harbour, unique in England. It is run by the Ramsgate Film & TV Institute, which will also run a variety of screenings throughout the year to bring international independent cinema to local audiences. The Festival focus is to show new works and help promote film makers. Screenings are complemented by a strong programme of quality events and seminars, with industry professionals of high...

 

 

Line up of the 33rd edition Bogota Film Festival

Competition : NATIVE by Daniel Fitzsimmons (Reino Unido) LA PUERTA ABIERTA by Marina Seresesky (España) JIA by Shumin Liu (China) MAVI BISIKLET by Ümit Köreken (Alemania) KIDNAP CAPITAL (Canadá) LA SEMILLA DEL SILENCIO /Colombia) FREISTATT (Sanctuary) by Marc Brummund (Alemania) PAPAGAJKA by Emma Rozanski (Bosnia y Hersegovina/ Reino Unido) LA FAMILIA REYNA by Tito Rodríguez República Dominicana) FALLING by Ana Rodríguez Rosell ...

November 11-13 at SIFF Film Center   Seattle Shorts Film Festival may feature short films, but big things are in the works for the sixth year. This year the festival will be three days, Friday November 11th to Sunday the 13th, with new program elements. Seattle Shorts once again received over 1,000 films from Pacific Northwest, nation...

 

Melbourne EFFA Program Launched!

Since last year’s festival, we have seen globally historical moments in environmental decision making. The current climate is rich with opportunities for each of us to learn, take responsibility for the past and harness this wisdom to change the course of o...

 

CineLatino Film Festival September 22 - 25 to coincide with Hispanic Heritage month

The Denver Film Society announced today it will host their third annual CineLatino Film Festival September 22 - 25 to coincide with Hispanic Heritage month. The four-day long event will celebrate the best in cinema from Latin America, Mexico, Europe and the United States. The Festival will open with The Vessel, executive produced by Terrence Malik staring Martin Sheen and close w...

 

 

The Cinefamily Kicks off Full Career Retrospective of Documentary Filmmaking Legend Frederick Wiseman

Unprecedented four-year, career-spanning series at The Cinefamily Wiseman making a rare Los Angeles appearance for opening weekend Begins Thursday, August 25  -  Master Class with Wiseman, Saturday, August 27  - screening of newly restored classic Titicut Follies. For tickets and complete series screening info http://www.cinefamily.org/films/the-complete-works-of-frederick-wiseman-pt-1-1967-1976/     Non-profit cinematheque The Cinefamily kicks of...

 

 

China Film Festival at Newcastle China Week

Join us at this years China Film Festival in Gregson Park, Hamilton and the Tower Cinemas Newcastle, September 17 – 24. Opening night begins with an outdoor cinema and Noodle Night Market in Gregson Park, screening ‘The Monkey King’! The following week we will screen ‘Mr Six’, ‘Go Away Mr Tumour’ and ‘American Dreams in China’ at the Tower Cinemas Newcastle. China Week also features a Business Forum, and a vibrant Shanghai-inspired marketp...

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The team

The team behind  Sylvie Bolioli Festival Director   Christopher Scutt General Delegate     Brenda Blethyn Patron and Jury Member Amanda Russell Youth Events Director         Spartacus Festival Mascot   ...

 

Honorary Awards to film editor Anne V. Coates (Lawrence of Arabia, Exodus to Shanghai...)

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion PictureHonorary Awards to actor Jackie Chan, film editor Anne V. Coates Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night (August 30) to present, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.  The four Oscar® statuettes will be presented at the Academy’s 8th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 12, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center®. “The Honorary Award was creat...

 

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Viggo Lends a Hand to FireBurnDoctor in Cannes

      Good News! https://youtu.be/x5K0Kaict4k     FireburnDoctor, Philip Savage, does more than burns! Check out PSproof.com.   FBD documentary, RUSH, won an Angel award!    There's 4 more pages of amazing reports on www.FireBurnDoctor.com.     And now we have a Real Hero on the team!!!  www.PSproof.com    www.FireBurnDoctor.com    www.Thulea.com   To con...

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FFM 40 concludes with Awards and Cash prizes...and a sad note of a jury friend passing away RIP Donald Ranvaud

 

 

Awards - 47th Montreal Student Film Festival 2016

 

 

Happy summer ending with the San Diego Kids film festival Awards

The 2016 San Diego International Kids Film Festival ( SDIKFF) completed its mission on August 28,  in the American Spirit Theater at Escondido, CA.  The extra long corridor covered with beautiful vines on the top to create shade, the red carpet on the paths to create the glamour, in between, those beautiful people from worldwide were walking on the red carpet with proud and honor to represent their films.   At the hallway of the theater, every film makers signed their name ...

 

 

"Remembering the Masters" at Camerimage honors Haskel Wexler and Vilos Zsigmond

 

REMEMBERING THE MASTERS: HASKELL WEXLER AND VILMOS ZSIGMOND From its first editions Camerimage Festival became a platform for discussion about the past, the present, and the future of cinema. By inviting hundreds of cinematographers and other film industry professionals from all over the world, we encouraged dialogue and exchange of ideas, as well as confronting oneself with the art of the best and most distinguished filmmakers around. Thus came “Remembering the Masters”, the se...

 

 

The Academy has voted 17 students as winners of the 43rd Student Academy Awards® competition.

The Academy received a record number of entries this year – 1,749 films from 286 domestic and 95 international colleges and universities – which were voted by a record number of Academy members.  The 2016 winners join the ranks of such past Student Academy Award winners as Pete Docter, Cary Fukunaga, John Lasseter, Spike Lee, Trey Parker and Robert Zemeckis. The winners are (listed alphabetically by film title): Alternative “All These Voices,” David Henry...

 

 

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Paul Haggis to keynote at Script to Screen Summit | September 9, 2016 • Toronto, Canada

Register with a 30% discount ! You have the Script We have a way to get it to the Screen. A Keynote Conversation with: Paul Haggis, Award-winning Director, Writer and Producer: Show me a Hero. That’s the name of the new HBO mini-series, directed by Paul Haggis, which is rather fitting, consid...

 

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Palmarès du Festival des films du monde, Montréal 2016

 

Jury Pierre-Henri Deleau, directeur de festival de film, producteur,  France Claude Gagnon, réalisateur, Canada Goran Markovic, réalisateur, Serbie Donald Ranvaud, producteur, Italie / Royaume-Uni Eliseo Subiela, réalisateur, Argentine     LONGS MÉTRAGES   Grand prix des Amériques (meilleur film) : 100,000$ - USTAV REPUBLIKE HRVATSKE / THE CONSTITUTION de Rajko Grlic (Croatie, République tchèque, ...

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Web Series Festival Global August 5, 2016

Final Deadline : July 31th 2016 

2nd Annual www.WebSeriesFestivalGlobal.com offers $1000.00 CASH Grand Prize and Category Awards. Web Series Producers now have an opportunity to win $1000 Cash and Distribution (if needed). More than 20 individual categories, lot’s of chances to win. ALL entrants are considered for distribution. This is the recognition and high visibility YOU need to supercharge your career.

ENTER NOW :  Web Series and Web Series scripts are accepted.  http://www.webseriesfestivalglobal.com/ 

Celebrating Great Content in Web Series, Web Series Pilots, Web Series Scripts.

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The InterDrone Film Festival  September 7, 2016

Regular Deadline: July 22, 2016

The InterDrone Film Festival gives aerial cinematographers a stage where they can show their best footage shot by a UAV. The celebration of finalists and winners will happen Wednesday evening September 7, during a reception at InterDrone, the International Drone Conference and Exposition, held at the Paris in Las Vegas.  

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The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival April 19 – 22, 2017

The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival has been awarded several prestigious awards including one of the "Top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee" by Movie Maker Magazine. The MBIFF screens projects in a multi-million dollar theater, housing state of the art technology. 
Being billed as the East Coast's answer to Sundance, the MBIFF has a reputation for outstanding films including writings and blogs making the statement that the MBIFF has the best film line up in the World. We continue to be a venue for up and coming film makers as well as seasoned professionals. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance with their films, and will be available for Q&A sessions.

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Manhattan Short September 23 to October 2, 2016

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Director Byrd McDonald & VINTAGE TOMORROWS, An Epic Steampunk Doc

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent That director Byrd McDonald (Film Geeks) is from Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, birthplace of Loretta Lynn speaks volumes about his path toward the making of VINTAGE TOMORROWS, a documentary about the movement known as Steampunk coming at you on July 19 from Samuel Goldwyn Films. Viewing this film is essential as part of any aficionado’s playlist. In the unpacking of facts as to why the Steampunk community welcomed...

 

Help Rob Stewart's new film save 80 million sharks

    150 MILLION SHARKS ARE KILLED EVERY YEAR. WHERE THEY’RE GOING WILL SHOCK YOU! WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SAVE THEM FROM A NEW THREAT. Dear friend, When Sharkwater was released, it brought the plight of sharks to more than 124 million people, spawning conservation groups, changing government policy and seeding a movement that has banned shark finning throughout most of the world. Your support got us there. Despite th...

 

 

Oliver Stone’s "Snowden", to be presented in the San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection, out of competition

"Snowden", Oliver Stone’s new movie, to be presented in the San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection, out of competition   Share on Facebook   Share on Twitter Images in high re...

 

Bertrand Tavernier’s latest film will open the first competitive Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

San Sebastian Festival’s ''open zone'' will also present the works of Terence Davies, Lav Diaz and Jim Jarmusch, among others Share on Facebook   Share on Twitter Images in high resolution Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, the San Sebastian Festival section open to the most varied and surprising movies of the year, where there are no formal rul...

 

Ikusmira Berriak presents the projects selected

The four projects that will make up part of the 2016 programme are Loba (She-wolf) by Kiro Russo (Bolivia), Calipatria by Gerhard Treml and Leo Calice (Austria), Fantasía (Fantasy) by Aitor Merino and Amaia (Spain) and Suro by Mikel Gurrea (Spain). For the second year running, IKUSMIRA BERRIAK has received a Post-production Award: the REC award. IKUSMIRA BERRIAK, a support program for audiovisual projects that are committed to innovation and experimentation, has selected four projects...

 

Future Frames 2016 impresses audiences and filmmakers alike at Karlovy Vary

Future Frames participants with Gail Gendler (Sundance Channel), Tamara Tatishvili (Georgian National Film Center) and Felix Van Groeningen (Future Frames Mentor) The second edition of FUTURE FRAMES at the 51 Karlovy Vary International Festival 2016 has successfully wrapped. All soldout screenings of the FUTURE FRAMES films were followed by very lively Q&A's with the fantastic KVIFF audience. Highlights of the busy programme for the young filmmakers were a masterclass by Oscar nominat...

 

BBC Films on board for the BUFF Awards 2016

British Urban Film Festival (BUFF), the leading BAME film festival in the UK, today announce BBC Films is set to sponsor its showpiece film awards in September.    The deal marks the first time that the two organisations have worked together. Previously, the festival has had on-air partnerships with Channel 4, London Live (ESTV), Community Channel (Media Trust) and Showcase TV on Sky. The second annual British Urban Film Festival awards will take place at Hilton Tower Bridge ...

 

 

Chichester International Film Festival

We are very happy to announce that Women for Justice has been officially selected for Chichester International Film Festival. ...

 

MoMA presents Ira Sachs Retrospective "Thank You For Being Honest" (July 22 - August 3)

A Comprehensive, Mid-Career Retrospective of the Independent Filmmaker Considered the Quintessential Auteur of Today’s New York    Thank You for Being Honest: The Films of Ira Sachs July 22 - August 3, 2016 The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters   The Museum of Modern Art presents a complete, mid-career retrospective of the films of Ira Sachs, a filmmaker who, in the course of seven features and five short films, has established himself as one of the singular voices in Ameri...

 

New Israelian Pavilion in the Village, Minister of Culture at Inauguration

Thierry Fremaux and Miri Regev Israelian Minister of Culture inaugurated the Israelian Pavilion in the Village International of the Marché du Film. May 16   ...

 

 

The Unseen to premiere at Fantasia.

THE UNSEEN, A film from Geoff Redknap will have its World Premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival, Starring Aden Young, Camille Sullivan, Julia Sarah Stone, Ben Cotton. Director Geoff Redknap, Producer Katie Weekley, and Actor Camille Sullivan will be in attendance for the premiere in Montreal. Geoff Redknap’s debut feature, The Unseen, will have its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival, in Montreal July 17 at 9:45pm at J.A...

 

Starring: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Ian McShane China Anne McClain Jacob Latimore Michael Gross Thomas Nicholas Mark Rolston Cynthia Kaye Fred Tatasciore

Directed By: Khurram Alavi and Ayman Jamal 

Enoc The Resplendent Stargate by Martha Marin Premiering in Cannes

World premiere in Cannes

An artistic journey between fiction and documentary film at the same time, throughout space, time, dimensions, light and music, that are conducting through the full sequence to a live experience of Enoc the Resplendent Stargate Energy®

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The Shonku Diaries - A Unicorn Adventure by Kamal Bansal Written by Satyajit Ray
Animaze Daze in Cannes Winner

10 year old Mo & 13 year old Melody seek the help of their father’s dear friend, scientist & explorer Professor Shonku to find their missing father left earlier on a quest in search of the unicorn. En route they experience fantastical exploits & adventures that take them into opulent depths of the Himalayas, which are aided by a trail of clues.

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Paranoid Girls Comedy by Pedro del Santo was qualified for Oscar selection running for best film, best original song...

Revolution by Rob Stewart (Sharkwater) 

over 40 festival wins so far

Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.

Get Happy by Manoj Annadurai 

Feature - Feel Good Movie  - World premiered in Montreal World Film Festival Winner best romantic comedy in Manhattan Fest

Charlie Kane can’t catch a break. He grew into a man who expects the worse out of life and gets it. But that changes when, by chance, he meets a bright, sunny sprite of a woman named Holly who turns him from a dour drip into someone finally allowing himself to be happy.Then a bus flattens her before Charlie eyes. Charlie opts for suicide but can’t even successfully give up on life. Left with no other choice, he adopts Holly’s ethos of positivity and just decides to be happy... by ignoring all the bad things in life. But his cynical best friend isn’t buying Charlie’s new-found happiness and sets out to save Charlie by making him miserable again. 

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Top 10 des entrées hebdo France du 06/07/2016 au 12/06/2016

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The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival April 19 – 22, 2017

The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival has been awarded several prestigious awards including one of the "Top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee" by Movie Maker Magazine. The MBIFF screens projects in a multi-million dollar theater, housing state of the art technology. 
Being billed as the East Coast's answer to Sundance, the MBIFF has a reputation for outstanding films including writings and blogs making the statement that the MBIFF has the best film line up in the World. We continue to be a venue for up and coming film makers as well as seasoned professionals. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance with their films, and will be available for Q&A sessions.

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Manhattan Short September 23 to October 2, 2016

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Stone To Present Snowden in Zurich with the Film’s Stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley

 

The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) has landed one of the first screenings of Oliver Stone’s latest film “Snowden,” announcing today that the much anticipated film will have a gala premiere screening in Zurich on Saturday, September 24th. The announcement was made by ZFF Directors Karl Spoerri and Nadja Schildknecht.   Three-time Academy Award® winner Oliver Stone has become a familiar face at the Zurich Film Festival, now in its 12th edition...

 

Women for Justice in Kurdistan

  Women for Justice is on film tour in Kurdistan / North-Iraq. The film has been given pro bono to all women´s and human rights organisations to support their work.   .

 

73rd Venice International Film Festival Out of Competition Films

Out of Competition Important works by directors already established in previous editions of the FestivalAll sections »   1 | 2 | BRUNO CHIARAVALLOTI, CLAUDIO JAMPAGLIA, BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI - OUR WAR Italy, USA, 68’ (documentary) KASPER COLLIN - I CALLED HIM MORGAN Sweden, USA, 91' (documentary) ANDREW DOMINIK - ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING (3D) Great Britain, 112’ Nick Cave PHI...

 

 

André Forcier’s KISS ME LIKE A LOVER to open 40th Montreal World Film Festival

André Forcier’s Embrasses-moi comme tu m’aimes will open the 40thedition of the Montreal World Film Festival, it was announced.  The film’s world premiere in the MWFF’s World Competition will mark the fourth time a Forcier feature has competed in the festival, having won a variety of awards for Une histoire inventé (1990), A Wind From Wyoming (1994) andCoteau Rouge (2011). Scripted by Forcier and Linda Pinet, the fil...

 

 

BLOOD MOON Directed by KENNETH KOKIN to open Hollyshorts Film Festival2016

The 12th annual HollyShorts Film Festival sponsored by BITPIX will open with alumni and festival Jury member Kenneth Kokin’s directorial debut BLOOD MOON written by Oscar Nominated Nicholas Kazan and produced by Tim Williams (In The Bedroom). The feature film stars Maya Kazan (The Knick), Frank Medrano (The Shawshank Redemption) and James Callis (Battle Star Galactica, Bridget Jones’s Diary). The innovative score was composed by Joe Kraemer (Missi...

 

New York Asian Film Festival 2016

Held from June 22-25 at Lincoln Center and from July 6-9 at the School of Visual Arts theater the 15th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival presented 51 feature films in sold out screenings of which more than half were New York City premiers. The festival has certainly come a long way from its beginnings in a small theater in Chinatown, its passage through the Anthology Film Archives barely holding about 180 people to the much larger Walter Reade venue at Lincoln center w...

 

 

Brexit and Visionary Women to Headline TIFF Industry Conference

The first slate of films and Industry Programming for TIFF 2016 is announced! The seven-day conference launches with candid discussions on what impact Brexit will have on the industry, and will explore opportunities for the inclu...

 

 

Fourteen moviemakers will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award

Today saw presentation of the selection of films making up New Directors, the section embodying one of a film festival's core missions: to discover new filmmakers, or in other words, new ways of thinking, understanding and making cinema. The Director of the San Seb...

 

The new film by Douglas Gordon with Jonas Mekas will open the section Cineasti del presente 2016

    The Concorso Cineasti del presente will open with a film that is unique in its protagonists and for the concept that is the basis for the project. I Had Nowhere To Go by the filmmaker and video artist Douglas Gordon is based on Jonas Mekas's diary. “I Had Nowhere To Go is his story of exile; brought on by the horrors of the twentieth century, propelled by the need to create rather than destroy, to move on, to make sense... or not, where bewilderment is more h...

 

 

Locarno’s First Look initiative (6 – 8 August) turns the spotlight on Polish Cinema

  6 Polish films in post-production in Locarno       OSTATNIA RODZINA (The Last Family) by Jan P. Matuszyński     For its sixth edition, the Festival del film Locarno’s First Look initiative (6 – 8 August) turns the spotlight on Polish Cinema. Thanks to a partnership with the Polish Film Institute and Fundacja Polskie Centrum Audiowizualne, this year's First Look will present 6 films in post-production chosen by the Festiv...

 

Khyentse Norbu's "Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait", a world premiere at the Open Doors Screenings in Locarno

One region, four countries, twenty-one films, and a world premiere. This is the Open Doors Screenings 2016, a platform for talent of contemporary cinema in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and Nepal.   For Open Doors to extend its purview to exciting developments in young national cinemas, such as those of southern Asia, is nothing new. But a world premiere at the Open Doors Screenings certainly is. This is the case with Hema Hema: Sing ...

 

The restored films of Venezia Classici will be an enticing sidebar at Venice 2016

The restored films of Venezia Classici will be an enticing sidebar at Venice 2016 alone worth a trip to the LIdo this year. Alex Deleone <filmfestivals.com>   director Roberto Andò to chair the Jury composed of cinema students restored films and documentaries in world premiere screenings Italian director Roberto Andò (The Confessions, Long Live Freedom, The Prince’s Manuscript) will chair the Jury of Cinema History Students whi...

 

 

Oliver Stone’s "Snowden", to be presented in the San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection, out of competition

"Snowden", Oliver Stone’s new movie, to be presented in the San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection, out of competition   Share on Facebook   

Starring: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Ian McShane China Anne McClain Jacob Latimore Michael Gross Thomas Nicholas Mark Rolston Cynthia Kaye Fred Tatasciore

Directed By: Khurram Alavi and Ayman Jamal 

Enoc The Resplendent Stargate by Martha Marin Premiering in Cannes

World premiere in Cannes

An artistic journey between fiction and documentary film at the same time, throughout space, time, dimensions, light and music, that are conducting through the full sequence to a live experience of Enoc the Resplendent Stargate Energy®

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Paranoid Girls Comedy by Pedro del Santo was qualified for Oscar selection running for best film, best original song...

Revolution by Rob Stewart (Sharkwater) 

over 40 festival wins so far

Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.

Get Happy by Manoj Annadurai 

Feature - Feel Good Movie  - World premiered in Montreal World Film Festival Winner best romantic comedy in Manhattan Fest

Charlie Kane can’t catch a break. He grew into a man who expects the worse out of life and gets it. But that changes when, by chance, he meets a bright, sunny sprite of a woman named Holly who turns him from a dour drip into someone finally allowing himself to be happy.Then a bus flattens her before Charlie eyes. Charlie opts for suicide but can’t even successfully give up on life. Left with no other choice, he adopts Holly’s ethos of positivity and just decides to be happy... by ignoring all the bad things in life. But his cynical best friend isn’t buying Charlie’s new-found happiness and sets out to save Charlie by making him miserable again. 

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Winners Announced - The 2016 Script Pipeline Screenwriting & TV Writing Competitions

European Casting Director Award in Locarno

Locarno: The Leopard Club Award 2016 goes to Stefania Sandrelli

THE AWARDS of the 14. Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht (Signs of the Night / Signes de Nuit)

FIDMarseille Winners

Awards of the thirteenth edition of the Yerevan Golden Apricot Film Festival

Animaze reveals full program

Animaze Industry Conference Schedule Announced

ARTHUR cast and crew celebrating 20 years of the series at Animaze August 21

Animaze screens at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Press conference photos new Animaze partners for festival 2016

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The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival April 19 – 22, 2017

The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival has been awarded several prestigious awards including one of the "Top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee" by Movie Maker Magazine. The MBIFF screens projects in a multi-million dollar theater, housing state of the art technology. 
Being billed as the East Coast's answer to Sundance, the MBIFF has a reputation for outstanding films including writings and blogs making the statement that the MBIFF has the best film line up in the World. We continue to be a venue for up and coming film makers as well as seasoned professionals. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance with their films, and will be available for Q&A sessions.

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Manhattan Short September 23 to October 2, 2016

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The San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection selects works of Bertrand Bonello, Fernando Guzzoni, Arnaud des Pallières...

  Three debutants: North America’s Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Sweden’s Johannes Nyholm and Britain’s William Oldroyd will also compete for the Golden Shell   The competition for the Golden Shell at the latest edition of the San Sebastian Festival, running from September 16th to 24th, will have as its protagonists some of the most eye-catching moviemakers on the international panorama. Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama), Fernando Guzzoni (Jesus), Johannes Nyholm (Jätt...

 

''American Pastoral'', the directorial debut by Ewan McGregor, to compete in the Official Selection at the San Sebastian Festiva

The San Sebastian Festival will host the European premier of American Pastoral, directed by and starring Ewan McGregor. The Scottish actor, Donostia Award Winner in 2012, will compete in the Official Selection with his directorial debut. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philip Roth novel, American Pastoral follows an all American family across several decades, as their idyll...

 

Fourteen moviemakers will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award

Share on Facebook   Share on Twitter Images in high resolution Today saw presentation of the selection of films making up New Directors, the se...

 

Locarno 2016 events August 5

Highlight The conversation with Jane Birkin tomorrow at 10.30 (Spazio Cinema Forum) has been canceled. The conversation will take place at 16.15 at Palavideo and it will be followed by the screening of LA FILLE PRODIGUE by Jacques Doillon   Piazza Grande Events, 5 August JASON BOURNE by Paul Greengrass INTERCHANGE by Dain Iskandar Said  Leopard Club Award to Stefania Sandrelli   Special Events/Conversations with guests 5 August, 11.00,...

 

 

And the TWIST opening night film is...

Three Dollar Bill Cinema is thrilled to announce the world premiere of Clyde Petersen's feature film debut, TORREY PINES, as the Opening Night film of the 2016 TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival. The film will screen ...

 

A Brief Chat with Expulsion’s Kenneth Andrew Williams

We had a quick phone call with up and coming writer/director Kenneth Andrew Williams and here’s what we learned about race, MTV and his upcoming horror film Expulsion. What inspired you to become a writer/director? I was enamored with movies at a very, very early age. In fact, I wanted to be an actor when I was 8 years old because, at that age, all I could see were the people in front of the camera. And I thought they were making up everything as they fucking went. A short whi...

 

AFTERLOV receives Locarno World Premiere

  AFTERLOV, the debut feature from Greek director Stergios Paschos, will receive its world premiere in the Locarno International Film Festival’s "Concorso Cineasti del Presente" on 8 August, 2016.  Greek sales company Heretic Outreach have come on board to handle worldwide sales, with all territories available. It’s summertime - a time when Athens feels hotter than the desert.  Nikos, a broke 30-year-old musician, is chilling poolside and drinking cocktails...

 

Mabel Cheung: AAWMM Talk Back

By Maria Esteves – July 31, 2016 The Asian American Women Media Makers (AAWMM) Talk Back with multi-award winning Hong Kong director and screenwriter Mabel Cheung, moderated by co-founder S. Casper Wong, AAWMM, was held at the Museum of Chinese in New York (MOCA), Saturday, July 23, 12PM. Presented by AAIFF16, director Cheung discussed her early film career from Hong Kong to England to New York, her first trilogy works (The Illegal Immigrant, An Autumn's Tale, Eight Tales of Gold)...

 

Collegiate Church of Sant Vicenç in Cardona is “Treasure of European Film Culture”

The European Film Academy awards the Collegiate Church of Sant Vicenç in Cardona the title “Treasure of European Film Culture”. picture: Departament de Cultura. Generalitat de Catalunya. AVIOTEC. In October 1964, Orson Welles used the Collegiate Church of Sant Vicenç in Cardona as the location for CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT, his personal Shakespeare adaptation, with himself in the leading role. Although shooting lasted nine months, o...

 

Spa Night Q&A with Andrew Ahn and Joe Seo

By Maria Esteves – July 29, 2016 The 39th Asian American International Film Festival 2016 (AAIFF16) Opening Night Premiere of SPA NIGHT, directed by Andrew Ahn was held at Asia Society, New York, Thursday, July 21, 2016. A special Q&A session with director Ahn and lead actor Joe Seo moderated by festival programs manager Haisong Li, AAIFF, immediately followed. Questions posed to Ahn and Seo by Li and the audience included: "What message did you wanted to deliver by makin...

 

39th Asian American International Film Festival Opening Press Conference

By Maria Esteves – July 29, 2016 The 39th Asian American International Film Festival 2016 (AAIFF16) Opening Press Conference was held at the Museum of Chinese in New York (MOCA), Wednesday, July 20, 1PM. Presented by Asian CineVision (ACV), executive director John C. Woo, the event highlighted this year’s ten day (July 21-30) celebration of diversity in cast and themes by emerging and established Asian and Asian American filmmakers from 18 countries includes TOTO, directed ...

Starring: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Ian McShane China Anne McClain Jacob Latimore Michael Gross Thomas Nicholas Mark Rolston Cynthia Kaye Fred Tatasciore

Directed By: Khurram Alavi and Ayman Jamal 

Enoc The Resplendent Stargate by Martha Marin Premiering in Cannes

World premiere in Cannes

An artistic journey between fiction and documentary film at the same time, throughout space, time, dimensions, light and music, that are conducting through the full sequence to a live experience of Enoc the Resplendent Stargate Energy®

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Paranoid Girls Comedy by Pedro del Santo was qualified for Oscar selection running for best film, best original song...

Revolution by Rob Stewart (Sharkwater) 

over 40 festival wins so far

Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.

Get Happy by Manoj Annadurai 

Feature - Feel Good Movie  - World premiered in Montreal World Film Festival Winner best romantic comedy in Manhattan Fest

Charlie Kane can’t catch a break. He grew into a man who expects the worse out of life and gets it. But that changes when, by chance, he meets a bright, sunny sprite of a woman named Holly who turns him from a dour drip into someone finally allowing himself to be happy.Then a bus flattens her before Charlie eyes. Charlie opts for suicide but can’t even successfully give up on life. Left with no other choice, he adopts Holly’s ethos of positivity and just decides to be happy... by ignoring all the bad things in life. But his cynical best friend isn’t buying Charlie’s new-found happiness and sets out to save Charlie by making him miserable again. 

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Gael García Bernal to receive the first Jaeger-LeCoultre Latin Cinema Award

Winners of the pitching competition at the 7th New Horizons Studio

Polish Days 2016 Recap and Awards

Science Media Awards Finalists Announced!

The Winners of the 16th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival Have Been Announced

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The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival April 19 – 22, 2017

The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival has been awarded several prestigious awards including one of the "Top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee" by Movie Maker Magazine. The MBIFF screens projects in a multi-million dollar theater, housing state of the art technology. 
Being billed as the East Coast's answer to Sundance, the MBIFF has a reputation for outstanding films including writings and blogs making the statement that the MBIFF has the best film line up in the World. We continue to be a venue for up and coming film makers as well as seasoned professionals. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance with their films, and will be available for Q&A sessions.

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Manhattan Short September 23 to October 2, 2016

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Stone To Present Snowden in Zurich with the Film’s Stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley

 

The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) has landed one of the first screenings of Oliver Stone’s latest film “Snowden,” announcing today that the much anticipated film will have a gala premiere screening in Zurich on Saturday, September 24th. The announcement was made by ZFF Directors Karl Spoerri and Nadja Schildknecht.   Three-time Academy Award® winner Oliver Stone has become a familiar face at the Zurich Film Festival, now in its 12th edition...

 

Women for Justice in Kurdistan

  Women for Justice is on film tour in Kurdistan / North-Iraq. The film has been given pro bono to all women´s and human rights organisations to support their work.   .

 

73rd Venice International Film Festival Out of Competition Films

Out of Competition Important works by directors already established in previous editions of the FestivalAll sections »   1 | 2 | BRUNO CHIARAVALLOTI, CLAUDIO JAMPAGLIA, BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI - OUR WAR Italy, USA, 68’ (documentary) KASPER COLLIN - I CALLED HIM MORGAN Sweden, USA, 91' (documentary) ANDREW DOMINIK - ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING (3D) Great Britain, 112’ Nick Cave PHI...

 

 

André Forcier’s KISS ME LIKE A LOVER to open 40th Montreal World Film Festival

André Forcier’s Embrasses-moi comme tu m’aimes will open the 40thedition of the Montreal World Film Festival, it was announced.  The film’s world premiere in the MWFF’s World Competition will mark the fourth time a Forcier feature has competed in the festival, having won a variety of awards for Une histoire inventé (1990), A Wind From Wyoming (1994) andCoteau Rouge (2011). Scripted by Forcier and Linda Pinet, the fil...

 

 

BLOOD MOON Directed by KENNETH KOKIN to open Hollyshorts Film Festival2016

The 12th annual HollyShorts Film Festival sponsored by BITPIX will open with alumni and festival Jury member Kenneth Kokin’s directorial debut BLOOD MOON written by Oscar Nominated Nicholas Kazan and produced by Tim Williams (In The Bedroom). The feature film stars Maya Kazan (The Knick), Frank Medrano (The Shawshank Redemption) and James Callis (Battle Star Galactica, Bridget Jones’s Diary). The innovative score was composed by Joe Kraemer (Missi...

 

New York Asian Film Festival 2016

Held from June 22-25 at Lincoln Center and from July 6-9 at the School of Visual Arts theater the 15th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival presented 51 feature films in sold out screenings of which more than half were New York City premiers. The festival has certainly come a long way from its beginnings in a small theater in Chinatown, its passage through the Anthology Film Archives barely holding about 180 people to the much larger Walter Reade venue at Lincoln center w...

 

 

Brexit and Visionary Women to Headline TIFF Industry Conference

The first slate of films and Industry Programming for TIFF 2016 is announced! The seven-day conference launches with candid discussions on what impact Brexit will have on the industry, and will explore opportunities for the inclu...

 

 

Fourteen moviemakers will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award

Today saw presentation of the selection of films making up New Directors, the section embodying one of a film festival's core missions: to discover new filmmakers, or in other words, new ways of thinking, understanding and making cinema. The Director of the San Seb...

 

The new film by Douglas Gordon with Jonas Mekas will open the section Cineasti del presente 2016

    The Concorso Cineasti del presente will open with a film that is unique in its protagonists and for the concept that is the basis for the project. I Had Nowhere To Go by the filmmaker and video artist Douglas Gordon is based on Jonas Mekas's diary. “I Had Nowhere To Go is his story of exile; brought on by the horrors of the twentieth century, propelled by the need to create rather than destroy, to move on, to make sense... or not, where bewilderment is more h...

 

 

Locarno’s First Look initiative (6 – 8 August) turns the spotlight on Polish Cinema

  6 Polish films in post-production in Locarno       OSTATNIA RODZINA (The Last Family) by Jan P. Matuszyński     For its sixth edition, the Festival del film Locarno’s First Look initiative (6 – 8 August) turns the spotlight on Polish Cinema. Thanks to a partnership with the Polish Film Institute and Fundacja Polskie Centrum Audiowizualne, this year's First Look will present 6 films in post-production chosen by the Festiv...

 

Khyentse Norbu's "Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait", a world premiere at the Open Doors Screenings in Locarno

One region, four countries, twenty-one films, and a world premiere. This is the Open Doors Screenings 2016, a platform for talent of contemporary cinema in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and Nepal.   For Open Doors to extend its purview to exciting developments in young national cinemas, such as those of southern Asia, is nothing new. But a world premiere at the Open Doors Screenings certainly is. This is the case with Hema Hema: Sing ...

 

The restored films of Venezia Classici will be an enticing sidebar at Venice 2016

The restored films of Venezia Classici will be an enticing sidebar at Venice 2016 alone worth a trip to the LIdo this year. Alex Deleone <filmfestivals.com>   director Roberto Andò to chair the Jury composed of cinema students restored films and documentaries in world premiere screenings Italian director Roberto Andò (The Confessions, Long Live Freedom, The Prince’s Manuscript) will chair the Jury of Cinema History Students whi...

 

 

Oliver Stone’s "Snowden", to be presented in the San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection, out of competition

"Snowden", Oliver Stone’s new movie, to be presented in the San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection, out of competition   Share on Facebook   

Starring: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Ian McShane China Anne McClain Jacob Latimore Michael Gross Thomas Nicholas Mark Rolston Cynthia Kaye Fred Tatasciore

Directed By: Khurram Alavi and Ayman Jamal 

Enoc The Resplendent Stargate by Martha Marin Premiering in Cannes

World premiere in Cannes

An artistic journey between fiction and documentary film at the same time, throughout space, time, dimensions, light and music, that are conducting through the full sequence to a live experience of Enoc the Resplendent Stargate Energy®

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Paranoid Girls Comedy by Pedro del Santo was qualified for Oscar selection running for best film, best original song...

Revolution by Rob Stewart (Sharkwater) 

over 40 festival wins so far

Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.

Get Happy by Manoj Annadurai 

Feature - Feel Good Movie  - World premiered in Montreal World Film Festival Winner best romantic comedy in Manhattan Fest

Charlie Kane can’t catch a break. He grew into a man who expects the worse out of life and gets it. But that changes when, by chance, he meets a bright, sunny sprite of a woman named Holly who turns him from a dour drip into someone finally allowing himself to be happy.Then a bus flattens her before Charlie eyes. Charlie opts for suicide but can’t even successfully give up on life. Left with no other choice, he adopts Holly’s ethos of positivity and just decides to be happy... by ignoring all the bad things in life. But his cynical best friend isn’t buying Charlie’s new-found happiness and sets out to save Charlie by making him miserable again. 

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Winners Announced - The 2016 Script Pipeline Screenwriting & TV Writing Competitions

European Casting Director Award in Locarno

Locarno: The Leopard Club Award 2016 goes to Stefania Sandrelli

THE AWARDS of the 14. Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht (Signs of the Night / Signes de Nuit)